Unknowing The Known is the debut mini album by forceghost who are a duo from Augusta Georgia, comprised of Eric Kinlaw and Marcus Barfield and produced in association with Noel Brown and mastered by Jason NeSmith.
The album opens with High Score! That is full of video arcade game synth noises bleeping away, as you set the game of your choices High Score! once again. The vocals let us know just how much it means to them, to be top of the pile at Defender or Kong or whatever they are playing this week.
Birdies has them playing a multiplayer golf game of some sort, trying to prove a point for how good they are, by scoring 18 Birdies in a row, slow evocative with synths shimmering, at times shaking, making it difficult to concentrate on that next shot, as the sound envelopes everything.
Iffy is well decidedly Iffy glitchy synth pop, with lots of outre elements taken from analogue synths of the 70's, but played through an 80's Atari games system, or something along those lines, as gauzy recorded behind a wall vocals intone, odd dentist drill noises being manipulated against a three-note piano break that's squiffilly iffy.
Melanchronik is a pulsing anthem for the sort of smoke that leaves you unable to move from the sofa, even to get the munchies you crave, as it's just too much effort, you'd rather just wallow in the sounds surrounding you, engulfed by vocals strained through a vocoder or some sort of voice box, as the synths go all sci-fi with CP30 style bleeping against the wash of noise as you take just one more toke.
The single Triangles may have some sampled triangle playing, but if that is what's going on, they have been manipulated and altered till the Triangles sound is absent, as the synth pop oddness of it, has you repeating and chanting along with them that it's All In Time, even if you feel decidedly out of time, as those classic Bally game noises get to you.
The album closes with Oobly Doobly a slow chamber synth pop love song for the spectrally challenged space boys, who are endlessly fascinated by Computer Games music and 70's sci fi film soundtracks, laden with close harmony vocals cocooning you with love.
Find out more at https://forceghost.bandcamp.com/album/unknowing-the-known https://forceghostmusic.com/ https://www.facebook.com/forceghostmusic
