Ghost Approaches, by Earl Vallie

Ghost Approaches

by Earl Vallie

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The Third Eye The Springsteen comparisons are appropriate. The record is like a bizarro Boss if he got lost on a Jersey highway and traveled America in a fever dream. Ready to Die is my favorite track - an anthem for our post-everything age where I often throw up my hands, say "Fuck it," and give the middle finger to the mega-churches in my community. Favorite track: Ready To Die.

Robby Morgan Earl brings a little Bruce, a little Roy, all with Greg from Deerhoof behind the boards and kit. A real soaring, life affirming sound permeates this record front to back with a barn burner of an opening track! Favorite track: Ready To Die.

jon zellweger A mighty, mighty album. A warped Springsteenian romp if Ramsay Midwood had written Born to Run. Not a bad song in the bunch. Near perfect sequencing as a gesamtkunstwerk. Ending with Sunday Soldier ensures the sounds will bounce around in your skull long after it wraps. Favorite track: Sunday Soldier.

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12" Limited Edition Classic Black 140g Vinyl LP of “Ghost Approaches”. Extremely small run of 175 copies. The companion zine created by Earl is 32-page, semi-gloss, full-color 6.69" x 9.61" zine consisting of excerpts from Earl's notebook while planning the album. It also includes Earl's gorgeous original illustrations in the form of tattoo flash sheets.

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Pro-dubbed, pro-printed audio cassette w/ fold-out j-card. The companion zine created by Earl is 32-page, semi-gloss, full-color 6.69" x 9.61" zine consisting of excerpts from Earl's notebook while planning the album. It also includes Earl's gorgeous original illustrations in the form of tattoo flash sheets.

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32-page, semi-gloss, full-color 6.69" x 9.61" zine by Earl Vallie.

A companion zine to the 'Ghost Approaches' album consisting of excerpts from Earl's notebook while planning the album. It also includes Earl's gorgeous original illustrations in the form of tattoo flash sheets.

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-12" Limited Edition Classic Black 140g Vinyl LP of “Ghost Approaches”. Extremely small run of 175 copies.
-Pro-dubbed, pro-printed audio cassette w/ fold-out j-card.
-Companion zine created by Earl. 32-page, semi-gloss, full-color 6.69" x 9.61" zine consisting of excerpts from Earl's notebook while planning the album. It also includes Earl's gorgeous original illustrations in the form of tattoo flash sheets.

-Bonus Perpetual Doom sticker.

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1.	Ready To Die 03:46	info	buy track
2.	A Beautiful Creature 04:13	info	buy track
3.	Autumn Leaves 04:04	info	buy track
4.	Prom 04:27	info	buy track
5.	Hollow Skies 04:05		buy track
6.	Reap The Seeds of Love 04:14		buy track
7.	Tarantulan Son 03:10	info	buy track
8.	My Baby's Broomstick 04:56	info	buy track
9.	Sunday Soldier 06:01	info	buy track

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Perpetual Doom proudly presents the new album from Earl Vallie: Ghost Approaches. Brandishing a new moniker and a reenergized spirit, Vallie teams up with producer and drummer Greg Saunier of Deerhoof to deliver a collection of boldly weird and defiantly life-affirming songs.

Earl Vallie cordially invites you on a journey into the depths of the working-class artist, the neon-sludge pit where workaday drudgery mixes with outsized desires and jumbotron dreams. Ghost Approaches is a cry of resilience, what opener “Ready to Die” calls a “blood-curdled promise to set things right.” That song kicks off the record with a Springsteen-esque howl, with charging guitars and an echoing wail.

It’s an appropriate sentiment for a record that begun with Vallie’s move from Joshua Tree to LA and the pandemic-borne worry that music might be behind him. But just like the burst of synths that lifts the dancefloor love affair of “Hollow Skies,” Ghost Approaches ascends with a new, bolder sound. Together with Saunier, whose drumming gives the album a gritty pulse, Vallie adds new heft to his desert-lean tunes until even the album’s darkest moments (“Reap the Seeds of Love”) exhibit a bioluminescent glow. But behind it all is Vallie’s unmistakable voice.

Ghost Approaches features a remarkable range of musical contributions, from the chilling sax at the end of “My Babys Broomstick” to background vocals of Val Glenn on “Hollow Skies” and Heidi Alexander on the doo-wop inflected “Prom.” “My only goal,” Earl says, “is to uplift people with sounds and melodies that are undeniably relatable and healing for all.” It may be a ghost approaching—but it’s a good one.

Earl Vallie - Prom (Official Video): youtu.be/J6x5KX7Nkrg

Earl Vallie - Autumn Leaves (Official Video): youtu.be/NVE-u4d65h4

Earl Vallie - Hollow Skies (Official Video): youtu.be/oh22P0-gq-E

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released June 3, 2022

All songs written + sung by Earl Vallie
Produced, mixed + mastered by Greg Saunier
Drums - Greg Saunier
Bass - Joel T. Crocco
Vocals recorded @ Javelina Sound by Paul ”Paco” Cossette
Preproduction on Hollow Skies + Sunday Soldiers by Robert Harder
Cover sculpture - Tynan Kerr, entitled “Colossal Head”
Album layout + design - Joshua Erb

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