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Render Ghosts

by Render Ghosts

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Blue Nagoon An instant favorite! Render Ghosts brings a unique modern voice to synthpop. The melodies are sublime and the songs expertly crafted to showcase them. Favorite track: Albany.
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1.
Hard times are guaranteed Hard times are gonna come for you and me It doesn’t mean you’ll never say my name It doesn’t mean I’ll never miss you But we’re too late to make it work again And though I hate to have to tell you If you’re keeping my number And you’re saying you won’t go there Then I hope you remember Not to try try try Cause the nights will get longer Till you see that we’re over And you’re breaking my heart by making it hard To say bye bye Some dreams can be ignored Some dreams will get inside and leave you raw It doesn’t mean that you can catch them up When you’re awake and nothing’s working For what it’s worth I think we fell in love The fall was great but now it’s broken If you’re keeping my number And you’re saying you won’t go there Then I hope you remember Not to try try try Cause the nights will get longer Till you see that we’re over And you’re breaking my heart by making it hard To say bye bye Take these words Learn them well They’ll be yours for evermore Time might mend Time can’t bend We can’t get to where we were So my friend If you’re keeping my number And you’re saying you won’t go there Then I hope you remember Not to try try try Cause the nights will get longer Till you see that we’re over And you’re breaking my heart by making it hard To say bye bye
2.
Eye Rhyme 03:05
Did I make this up? Please tell me Did I mess things up Every single day You’re the one I want So why am I lonely? Maybe we just maybe we just Eye rhyme A visible thrill but not a lifeline Maybe we just maybe we just Can’t find ourselves Uh oh This time Did you pick me out As someone Did you pick me out Only for the fun Is it what you want Or something to run from? Maybe we just maybe we just Eye rhyme A visible thrill but not a lifeline Maybe we just maybe we just Can’t find ourselves Uh oh This time I don’t know how we could change us Sparks but no sweetness Close but not close at all If morning makes us both strangers My place can’t save us Your place can’t make us whole But what was the point of all your confidence And what was the point of both our names If this is a full stop? Maybe we just maybe we just Eye rhyme A visible thrill but not a lifeline Maybe we just maybe we just Can’t find ourselves Uh oh This time this time (So what was the point of all your confidence And what was the point of both our names?) Maybe we just maybe we just Can’t find ourselves Uh oh This time
3.
Bad Times 03:04
When I work the beat and everything is on And I want the night to last forever There’s a look you give that takes me back to one And a voice that says I’m going to lose ya Oh oh such a stupid feeling but it Oh oh Comes without a warning and it comes without a warning and These are the bad times These are the the bad times But we’ll survive them Make for the good ones Make for the good ones If we can find them find them I close your eyes and draw you near Like that’s enough to keep you here When you’re half-way gone from drinking Tenessee And you strut like you’re the new Nirvana There’s a look you give that tells me wait and see And a night like this that makes me wanna Oh oh such a dumb reaction But I’m Oh oh Loose with my emotions and I’m loose with my emotions oh These are the bad times These are the the bad times But we’ll survive them Make for the good ones Make for the good ones If we can find them find them I close your eyes and draw you near Like that’s enough to keep you here (I’ve got no trick in my bones) (I’ve got no) (I’ve got no trick in my bones) (I don’t do bitter think a bit bigger and) (Tell me what’s the matter here) (You’ve got the place in my heart) (You’ve got the) (You’ve got the place in my heart that says I’ll) (Never do better I’ll never do better it’s) (One two three) so hard to say what’s on my mind (Four five six seven) at least I try These are the bad times These are the the bad times But we’ll survive them Make for the good ones Make for the good ones If we can find them find them (One two three) I close your eyes and draw you near (Four five six seven) like that’s enough
4.
Totally Numb 03:40
Climbing up the stairs Of shameful situations Feeling inappropriate In this new house And threw everything away And threw everything away Gazing eyes that stare Towards the unknown Towards the unknown I am afraid of my future I feel misplaced in my own skin Not giving you the desire you desire How come I could not feel How come I became totally numb And threw everything away And threw everything away And threw everything away And threw everything away
5.
Since the time it took your car Half a day to reach us I’ve been scared of saying a last goodbye Then you turn up once more Say you somehow missed a turning A turning With no plastic in your lungs And your laugh from elsewhere You’ve come well prepared to stay the night But you’re only half here And you’ll go without a warning A warning You always look for rain at such strange times Chasing your days away April’s been on your mind for far too long Make that your lullaby And it needn’t take a bomb To destroy the moment Now you’ve trained yourself to faint at will But you say you’re OK And you only need some quiet Some quiet You always look for rain at such strange times Chasing your days away April’s been on your mind for far too long Make that your lullaby Make that your luh-uh-uh They’ve opened the garden now just to see you cry Make that your lullaby And if time could only tell Then I’m sure you’d tell me But it’s hard to hear a thing you say Cause you’re only half here And you’ll go without a warning You always look for rain at such strange times Chasing your days away April’s been on your mind for far too long Make that your lullaby
6.
Director 04:28
I am an actor Guided by a director Taking over my current days Scene after scene The story develops Without me being there I pulled myself away from you Thinking I had stopped My mind before While I was overthinking everything When I did it before The master and the puppet Took control over movements So I was both at once Got rid of a heavy weight But was it me who did it? I’m not sure but it was inexorable I pulled myself away from you Thinking I had stopped I pulled myself away from you Thinking I had stopped My mind before
7.
Split Me Up 03:57
Let me split me up I’ll take with me whatever I’m holding No need to pack I’ll get to you I’ll split me up and go In this way I can be both Now half of me is half with you I don’t need to be complete forever I don’t need to be complete for now I don’t need to know You don’t need to know We don’t need to know Half of me is gone, gone Half of me is gone Half of me is real Cause I don’t need brightness to love you Hold my half It’s fully there A member of the club I signed for thirty years So hold my half So I won’t break in two I don’t need to be complete forever I don’t need to be complete for now I don’t need to know You don’t need to know We don’t need to know
8.
Who am I to try to guess Which of the districts you go with best? It’s gonna take a taxi But that’s OK Cause you’ve got the money And I think I know the way It’s really nothing like a disco But we dance oh oh Dance all all the same I know that I’m high before my time I’m heady with something right now But when I get down from my cloud I know there’s a life of love and loss ahead And no-one gets all they’re after But tell me at least you’ll be there Half a joke to make your day Not that I’ve seen you beneath OK You’ve got the disposition I knew I’d need And if this is guessing Then I’ll go where guessing leads It’s really nothing like a disco But we dance oh oh Dance all all the same I know that I’m high before my time I’m heady with something right now But when I get down from my cloud I know there’s a life of love and loss ahead And no-one gets all they’re after But tell me at least you’ll be there I fake your number I fake your number but it goes through anyway oh uh oo You’re straight on over You’re straight on over and it feels like we’re the same I know that I’m high before my time I’m heady with something right now But when I get down from my cloud I know there’s a life of love and loss ahead But tell me you’ll stay till the end
9.
Albany 03:02
You say you’ll prove it In dextrous carpet You’ll cut it you’ll thread it You’ll count down the holes till you sleep You’re scared I’ll find you Too much to go through I get it you fight all the hopes you’re afraid you can’t keep But when they come to speak Bliss could be Ah ah ah ah Both of us seeking Seeking Albany Ah ah ah ah Out of the whole wide Ah ah ah ah ah With 5 good reasons You’ll do your week in But show me the briefing that got you this close to the blues And while there’s time to lose Bliss could be Ah ah ah ah Both of us seeking Seeking Albany Ah ah ah ah Out of the whole wide Company company company Though we don’t quite run to cars yet What you need’s given en en en Come with me come with me come with me Beneath all the skies you dreamed of What you need’s given en en en Bliss could be Both of us seeking Seeking
10.
I came round in silver Head full of sound Tried to see myself tried to see myself in the pavement All the stones or nothing I tried to remember How long you stayed Could’ve been a while could’ve been a while or a moment One more night to throw away I never knew I could catch your eye Always knew I’d break down inside Before I found out what lay there Life gave me time but I passed it by oo oo Oo oo oo Look to the sky Try to figure out try to figure out what the stars say Both our names or nothing I never knew I could catch your eye Always knew I’d break down inside Before I found out what lay there Life gave me time but I passed it by oo oo Breaking out in mirrors See the city turn Bigger big small Make it run Make it run forever Chasing silhouettes Never gets old I never knew I could catch your eye Always knew I’d break down inside Before I found out what lay there Life gave me time but I passed it by oo oo oo Oo oo oo Oo oo oo

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Render Ghosts’ self-titled debut album is a finely hewn sequence representing the full range of the band's creativity.

Director recalls Angelo Badalamenti’s stirring string-scapes for David Lynch, whilst Look For Rain is a strange but beautiful mid-tempo song built around an instrumental hook reminiscent of Konono No.1.

Elsewhere there's propulsive alt-synth pop (Totally Numb, Split Me Up), 80s-tinged balladry (High Before My Time) and a torch-song inspired by Everything Everything and JS Bach (Chasing Silhouettes).

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released March 25, 2022

All songs by Iain Chambers, Tamara van Esch and Tom Wilson
Except Totally Numb, Director by Iain Chambers and Tamara van Esch
Split Me Up by Iain Chambers, Tamara van Esch and Timon Persoon

Mixing by Ben Kape
Mastering by Adaq Khan
Art direction by Matthew Young
Photography by Lisanne Lentink and Elen Williams
Additional editing on Bad Times by Kit Wilson

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Render Ghosts (London/Utrecht) make soaring, kinetic tunes that take synth pop into the 21st century.

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