Grow Up or Sleep In

Artist: Ghosty
Label: Future Farmer
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 749322593929
EAN: 0749322593929
ASIN: B000ALZHQG

Release Date: 2005-08-30

Grow Up or Sleep In

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Tracks:

Jacqueline
Big Surrender
Henry Greene
Rooms in the Dark
(In a Big World) Little Dreams Count
High on Life
Vandalism
Clouds Solve It
Go to Add/Drop City
World Travelers
Hey! Somebody

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Customer Reviews:

Catchy, smart, and interesting!.......2006-02-27

The Lawrence, KS band Ghosty's debut Grow Up or Sleep In is one of the catchiest indie rock/pop albums of the year. The album's of combination of smart optimistism and youthful maturity is even more impressive given the just-out-of-college age of the band members. Leader Andrew Conner's melodies are ridiculously addictive, as are the band's instrumentation and tones. The overall result is a collection of songs reminiscent of the quirky sentimental pop of The Flaming Lips (Wayne Coyne guests on the track "Clouds Have It") and the paradoxically Sage Yet Juvenile lyrics of Ben Folds.

This is an album that manages to be accessible to all even vaguely familiar with the indie rock idiom, but still entirely original and fresh.

Highlights include: "Jacqueline", the aforementioned "Clouds Solve It", "Big Surrender", and "(In a Big World) Little Dreams Count".

This is music with heart, intelligence, and, perhaps even more importantly, singability.

A must-have for any fan of smart, upbeat indie rock!

Just a great indie/pop rock album that I think most people will like! Barely a classic, though.......2006-01-12

Even though Ghosty doesn't necessarily bring anything new to the indie rock table, everything about this album is just great. The singer, especially, fits the music and is just extremely appealing - I would argue that most people will like him. There are no "great" songs here, necessarily, but every song here is good-if-not-very-good. They're all just very fun and catchy songs. It's also a relatively good background music/mellow album which certainly adds to its worth. The lyrics are somewhat hard to make out at times, but they're actually pretty interesting when you can. They're definitely catchy at points. Musically it's relatively standard indie/pop rock, but it's just so well done and produced that it's hard not to like it. It was admittedly a hard decision, but there's really nothing I don't like about this album, even if I'd prefer other albums over it. If you like the style or the band, I'm pretty sure that you will really really like this! Highly recommended!

Highlights include:
the entire album!

polished and sublime.......2005-10-06

i'm an fairly avid searcher for new music (i'm in a 12 step program), and so i've got to say that after seeing this band live in austin opening for the fruit bats (without about 17 other people) - i'm amazed that a band this complex, polished and lovely has escaped virtually all notice by so many people thus far.

the album is a great introduction. see these guys live.

Beautiful, light, optimistic - a absolute must buy!.......2005-09-09

Not being particularly open-minded to independent music, I was fully prepared (and indeed, determined) NOT to enjoy Ghosty, but one of my friends whose brother knows the band insisted I give them a listen, about a year ago. Even on those poorly-encoded MP3s, stolen from some server in the annals of Lawrence, Kansas, I was still able to distill the necessary essence of Ghosty - blissful pop perfection, song after song, from "Henry Greene" to "Hey! Somebody." (There are also a number of other great Ghosty numbers not included on this so-called "debut" album, and they carry the similar trademark charm.)

"Big Surrender" is perhaps the SINGLE-MOST listenable pop song I have ever heard. I once ran through a marathon of no less than fifty listens, without even the slightest bit of fatigue. There are simply no weaknesses - no instrument astray, no words or chords misplaced, nothing questionable happening in the mix or in the harmonies. Analysis of the song would undoubtedly show that beauty and simplicity can quite easily go hand in hand. The guitar solo is tight, simple and lyrical, yet supplemental in the best sense - it is not so virtuosic that it distracts from the backdrop. The lyrics themselves are catchy and poetic, with an subtly upbeat message - our gentle new anthem for the optimism of youth. The drumming fits perfectly within the narrow framework of the song. If every band has only one moment divinely inspired, most certainly, this is theirs.

The rest of the album is strong, and uniformly so. The vocalist has a quirky and unusual tenor voice, but it, as a microcosm of the band, soft and mellow, and quickly fell into my favor. It's good, solid stuff, and although it strays from my ordinary tastes, I find this band to be a veritable diamond in the rough.

Most indie bands (if one could continue to call them that) sound like white noise and unfiltered cigarettes, but the stylings of Ghosty are as good as gold. I don't often (read: never) bestow superlatives upon music, but this is the best album to have been released in the past five years. I've only one prophecy - their inevitable rise to fame. Writing and chemistry like this don't just fade away.

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