We have a release date for the Ghost E.P. – 5th April. Here’s the lovely write up from Emile at Other Electricities:

O.E. veterans Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love will drop their fourth release, the Ghost E.P., on 04.05.11. These recordings were nearly lost in the ether, but some clever trickery brought them back to life.

On Ghost, Low Low… return to their lo-fi origins with a six-song cycle of basement-incidentals, humming /flickering guitars, affective harmonies and reverb-heavy percussion. Created in various stages over the course of a year on a 16-track reel-to-reel and 8-track cassette recorder, these songs almost didn’t see the light of day. After months of basement storage, the tapes appeared moldy and smelled damp. Flecks of tape were falling off and volume seemed irregular, leading to a diagnosis of “sticky shed syndrome”. In an effort to save the recordings, the band found an engineer to “home bake” them, preserving integrity long enough to extract the mixes. Coincidentally enough, those experiences of decay, cloudiness and frustrated hope reside strikingly parallel to the lyrical themes in Ghost’s songs.

To complement the nature of the original recordings, 100 limited-edition cassette versions were pressed. The artwork was hand-printed using a big old Albion Press and is based on the lyric from track four, “The wasp in my hair… Then the shock in my arms… Is close to the day that I need”. Each cassette comes with a digital download card, so you’re covered in case you like to store your tapes in a damp basement too.

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