Hungry Ghost, by Hungry Ghost

Hungry Ghost

by Hungry Ghost

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victorfranko Solid punk blues grooves. Favorite track: Powerman.

Nathan Payne Nice to see Sara Lund's playful side. Always great work. This album is getting lots of airtime in my world. Favorite track: Wicked Betsy.

Dan Leithauser Fun Portland "superband" channeling influences of 70-80's rock including Led Zep, Erkin Koray, Alice Coltrane, The Groundhogs, The Staple Singers, John Fahey, Black Sabbath, Pussy Galore, Nick Drake, The Kinks, X, Joy Division, The Gories (and The Dirtbombs?). RIYL any of the above.

Jeremy Withers I still can't put my finger on this one, but it's totally compelling: swaggering Zeppelin riff rock croons meets post-punk angularity and urgency.

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1.	Powerman 03:46	lyrics	buy track
Am I a Powerman? (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) Or just a regular man? (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) My obfuscation My intoxication Am I a Powerman? (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) Or just a regular man? (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) This is my comeuppance You know it had to come This my comeuppance You know it had to come
2.	Epic Sadness 02:46	lyrics	buy track
We dreamt of light But went for dark Our epic sadness Broke our fucking hearts (repeat) The darkness came And swallowed us whole We lost our way And fell far below
3.	Graham St Massacre 02:05	lyrics	buy track
What been broke What been damaged Cannot be fixed Cannot be bandaged But I feel good right now When your ride's just a car When my block's just a street That's when I'll be free (That's when you'll be free) That's when I'll be free (That's when you'll be free) from that Graham Street Massacre What been broke What been damaged Cannot be fixed Cannot be bandaged But I feel good right now
4.	Get Up 05:33	lyrics	buy track
When I say you get up You get up I'm prepping myself I'm prepping myself (To love) When I say you get up you get up The sunrise is coming so wake up This house is no longer haunted This time you get what you wanted
5.	High 02:39	lyrics	buy track
Someone betrayed someone You don't know who Someone is flying But it's not you Mother's gone But the boy keeps it together Father tries But he just can't be there Solitude Finds himself with Mingus Rude Someone betrayed someone You don't know who Someone is flying But it's not you Everybody gets themselves high on something You can fly You can hide
6.	Shame 05:14	lyrics	buy track
You know it's wrong But you do it anyway Shame You got no one to blame For your Pain You keep digging Digging your own grave Grave Let's share this pain together Let's share this pain alright Now all you dead souls Come on follow me down I know it's wrong but I do it anyway My will is good but my conscience slips away Siren's song colors through the haze I wanna change but I wanna stay the same
7.	Alice 03:57	lyrics	buy track
All things are water When you fall down the well My mother's daughter Under my father's spell We traveled in circles Bending back around Broken and starving We crawled to higher ground The trees hung quiet I stood by your bed I feel so lonely Was the only thing that you said Lie down beside me And tell me all you your lies I see your secrets They hide behind your eyes
8.	Wicked Betsy 04:07	lyrics	buy track
Spider I fear you Puppy I want to be near you Wicked Betsy Where you been all my life? I wait and I wait and I wait For you to be my wife Wicked Betsy Where you been all my life? Springtime is here And the cherry blossoms blooming And my love for you Grows so damn hot I can hardly stand it I try try try To get me some perspective But I cannot I will not I refuse to let this love die Wicked Betsy Where you been all my life?
9.	Know 03:42	info	buy track

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Hungry Ghost, a Portland rock duo, was born of decades long friendships and mutual admiration. Stewed and simmered in the cauldrons of Olympia post-punk, Portland experimentalism, and New Mexican trash-garage, Hungry Ghost is Sara Lund (Unwound) on drums, Andrew Price (Irving Klaw Trio) on guitar, and formerly featuring Lorca Wood (The Drags) on bass. Masterfully produced by PacNW legend Sam Coomes (Quasi, Heatmiser, Elliot Smith, Pink Mountain, Crock, etc), who also contributes guest keyboards on the album, these recordings manage to capture the focused, gritty edge and hypnotic raw power of the band’s live performances. In addition to the aforementioned bands, nods are given to influencers as far and wide as Led Zeppelin, Erkin Koray, Alice Coltrane, The Groundhogs, The Staple Singers, John Fahey, Black Sabbath, Pussy Galore, Nick Drake, The Kinks, X, Joy Division, The Gories, desert blues, and African Psychedelia of the '60s and '70s.

“You can tell (or at least I can tell) when a band is playing together for the joy of it, for the love of rocking; where all other aspirations are secondary at best, where you never feel for a second that the band is trying to put one over on you. Hungry Ghost! This music is spare, honed down to essentials – there is no faking it at this level. There’s no need to know what hip, respected underground bands the players were previously members of at whatever time in the past – this band doesn’t really sound like them anyway; but suffice it to say these are real players, their cred is legit. The distillation of classic American forms (and I consider punk a classic American form, as much as blues and jazz) into a simultaneously familiar and individual sound is relatively common strategy, but in practice it is extremely difficult to pull off with anything resembling a natural, uncontrived result. Hungry Ghost! But then this isn’t theoretical stuff – you just have to hear it and feel it – if you do this, it’s there, I’m telling you! At which point they won’t need me to justify it with verbiage.” – Sam Coomes

"Led Zeppelin meets ESG" (J. Funk, Helll, Tokyo)

"Hungry Ghost extrapolates from a bluesy, guitar-forward template into a gloriously unpredictable din that recalls better times" (Portland Monthly)

"Part of me hopes that the legion of Pacific Northwest garage-punk trios never hear Hungry Ghost's self-titled album. Because it likely would cause them to give up the dream. And that would be depressing, even though they will likely never be as good as Hungry Ghost. If they spend the next 20 years honing their chops, it's just possible they will get there—so long as they have a drummer as good as Sara Lund of the Corin Tucker Band and Olympia's wildly influential post-hardcore pioneers Unwound. Lorca Wood (the Drags) plays bass, and Andrew Price, of the experimental 1990s group Irving Klaw Trio, plays guitar with a dexterously nerdy style that belies the band's overall aesthetic of funky grime. Everybody sings, though Price takes main responsibility for the vocals. An exercise in rock economy, the nine short songs come together to form what may be my favorite album of 2012." REBECCA WILSON - PORTLAND MERCURY

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released July 31, 2012

Andrew Price - guitar, vox
Lorca Wood - bass, vox
Sara Lund - drums, vox

Produced by Sam Coomes
Engineered by Adam Pike at Toadhouse

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Hungry Ghost, a Portland rock duo, was born of decades long friendships and mutual admiration. Stewed and simmered in the cauldrons of Olympia post-punk & Portland experimentalism, Hungry Ghost is Sara Lund (Unwound) on drums, Andrew Price (Irving Klaw Trio) on guitar, and formerly featuring Lorca Wood (The Drags) on bass. ... more

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