World’s Greatest Ghosts Tape Penny Jam, Prep Debut Record-- Local Cut

World’s Greatest Ghosts Tape Penny Jam, Prep Debut Record

December 2nd, 2008 [1:39PM] Posted by: Michael Mannheimer | 0 COMMENTS

I said it back in March, and I’m sticking with my guns: World’s Greatest Ghosts should be huge. The Ghosts have gotten lots of props this year (a tenth place finish in our annual “Best New Band” poll, a slot at the PDX Pop Now! festival, opening for Talkdemonic in Seattle) and now comes news that they’re finally ready to hit the studio and record a debut record.

After signing with local label Lucky Madison last month, the basement synth rockers are looking to get the album out by late spring. Yesterday I asked singer/keyboardist Jesse Laney about the band’s plans for the new year:

We are going to record at Miracle Lake studio with Skyler Norwood from Point Juncture WA. His studio is pretty rad and he is a really nice guy, so we’re really excited to get to work with him. As far as songs go, we’re gonna do a few older songs from the EP but polished up and rerecorded. The rest is gonna be unreleased material comprised of some of the stuff we’ve been playing for the last year and some stuff we’ve written this fall. Hopefully it will be about 10-11 tracks. We are very excited about everything right now and can’t wait to get the album done. We are trying to get it recorded by the end of Jan to give the label enough time to get it out by late Spring.

As long as “On the Shore” is on there, I’m going to be one happy camper. Also, we’re a few days late on this (too much turkey + Blazers liveblogging = slow LC Friday), but the latest episode of the always-awesome Penny Jam features the Ghosts playing the new jam “Magick Words” at Matrix Networks in Milwaukie. So many telephones! So much Korg!

World’s Greatest Ghosts at Matrix Networks from The Penny Jam on Vimeo.