With the colorful new track “Severed Hands,” Texas-based band The Ghost Party dig firmly into their ’60s psych-forward influences. Its themes “based on a recurring dream and about generally feeling ‘in between’,” “Severed Hands” hypnotizes with its dazed vocals, gentle guitar jangles, and lingering organs. A jumpy guitar line meshes with wordless, aptly ghostly vocals for a chilling effect, culminating in a gorgeously soaring guitar line that adds further to the mysterious sense of bliss-inducing nostalgia.
The band comprises singer-songwriter/guitarist McCullough Ferguson, drummer Victor Sanchez, and bass/keys player Kendrick Ballard. “Severed Hands” was produced by Khruangbin producer Steve Christensen.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of March 2023’ Spotify playlist.
The track is also featured in the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Emerging Psychedelic Rock.
