Wardrobe started out as one-man project by Flemish musician Johan Verckist, but now is has turned into a full band. With the new Giving Up a Ghost album they travel to the outskirts of electro-pop, where anything might happen - provided it is catchy and melancholic. Most of the songs deal with heartbreak and loss (Distance, Back Doubles), although Verckist doesn't shun opinions. Exhibit A: the album's opener Armchair Critic.
He is not taking it lying down. In the defiant Off the Reel the band turns it up a notch with an abrasive Pixies-alike guitar and bass tandem. After all is said done it becomes apparent that a Hollywood ending isn't in the cards. All is not lost just yet. The album ends with a superb, slowed down cover of Come Back and Stay.
Giving Up a Ghost is a self-released album. Buy it (CD, vinyl) from his website.
Tracks:- Armchair Critic
- 24 Weeks
- King Of Clay
- Someday
- Live Forever
- Distance
- Long Gone
- Back Doubles
- Off the Reel
- Nothing’s Ever Gonna Change
- Ice Box Man
- Come Back and Stay
- 04/13 Waterput, Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands
- 04/13 RSD, Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
- 04/19 Zapoi, Mechelen, Belgium
- 05/26 Wolwinkel, Geel, Belgium
- 06/20 Café Hofman, Utrecht, Netherlands
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