Little Ghost, by Moonchild

Have I not mentioned this album/group? Well then, I’ve been slacking. Enter Amber, Andris and Max, an LA-based R&B-meets-“twee” group that met as students at Uni of Southern California’s music program (sensing a theme?). This album is, in a way, an antithesis to Choose Your Weapon by Haitus Kaiyote. The underlying music here is similarly a product of explosion of layered instruments and sounds; however, the sounds’ arrangement into airtight harmonies, orthodox time sigs, ethereal vocals, and single-state emotional journeys feels like a grand departure from the dissonant everything about HK. Sonically, Little Ghost is—I guarantee you—the best music you will play on your audio setup anytime soon…by a mile (or km). I’m willing to bet on it.  Every sound on the record is so well balanced and present that the album never fails to arrest me the moment I turn it on. “Joy” and “hope” are very grand and yet very apropos feelings I get when I listen to this one, and I hope it does the same for you.