***KInd Turkey Records is proud to present TV GHOST’s FIRST recordings. In early 2007 a young band from Lafayette, Indiana called Television Ghost sets up a 4-track monaurally in a moldy basement and hits record on "The Amputee" and "The Mold." Immediately after recording the band haphazardly drops the cassette into a puddle. What resulted is an incredible stamp of unique lo-fi punk. A true original. A true piece of art. It has to be heard to be believed. Both songs are stunning displays of a young and inspired band twisting the limits of garage/punk music. They perfectly melt doom and off putting moods into lo-fi synth-punk garage stompers. Mastered to tape by JUSTIN PERKINS and cut by DAVE ECK at Lucky Lacquers this recording is a loud and unique testament to the power of TV Ghost long before the band gained it's highly regarded reputation.
7" $6.30
09/17/2013
TV Ghost’s third full-length for In The Red, Disconnect is a journey to the center of dreams. The Lafayette, Indiana, band displays a newfound maturity, incorporating churning rhythms and psychedelic drone into a lush torrent of gaseous keys, sprawling guitars and eerie melody. Think Porcupine-era Echo and the Bunnymen and Tago Mago-era Can run through a Cure Pornography blender. “TV Ghost’s 2009 debut LP, Cold Fish, is a maelstrom—10 hectic songs ripped out in 25 minutes. Stuffed to the seams with wiry guitars, trembling keyboards, crashing beats, and Tim Gick’s mad-man warble, it has the creepy tension of a post-punk haunted house where the Cramps, the Scientists, or Pere Ubu might leap out from the shadows at any moment. The band deftly balances precision and abandon—every moment sounds lunatic and unhinged, yet no track collapses into complete anarchy. “That abandon has subsided a bit on Mass Dream, which doubles the length of its predecessor despite having only one more track. That’s by design—Gick says that his intent was to “space things out more, let the songs breathe.” And while I miss Cold Fish’s farther-flung moments, the band has countered that loss with songs that are deeper and more open. Now, along with all the post-punk echoes rattling around, unexpected reference points pop up. At times I hear the enervated drama of Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, or the stridency of Ian Svenonius during his Nation of Ulysses days. And TV Ghost prove as adept at stark dread as...
CD $12.00
09/03/2013
2XLP $19.50
10/15/2013
MP3 $9.90
09/03/2013
***Sweet Rot is pleased to present a two song scorcher of a single from Lafayette, Indiana's TV GHOST as a follow up to their quite excellent 2011 LP, Mass Dream on In the Red Records. "Phantasm" and the flip "Panic Area" are both typical TV Ghost—sinister, pummeling, psychedelic, lurching, spastic, and ugly, in all the right ways. We here at Sweet Rot are huge fans of all the band’s records, and feel that this just might be the best one yet and the one that best captures the intensity and urgency of their epic live show. For fans of Scientists, Slug Guts, Gordons, Cramps, etc.
7" $6.45
05/15/2012
MP3 $1.98
05/15/2012
Taking their name from the phenomenon of analog television frequency disturbances, Lafayette, Indiana’s TV Ghost conjures an especially sludgy and punishing brand of art-punk. They began making a name for themselves in 2007, when their first 7-inch, Atomic Rain, was released by Die Stasi Records, also home to the noisy likes of Pink Reason and Zola Jesus. TV Ghost’s sinister sound—which echoes the Scientists, Suicide and The Cramps’ ’70s output—and frantic live show won them an underground following; a 12-inch EP on Die Stasi, a single on Columbus Discount Records and their debut album, Cold Fish, followed in 2009 with several rounds of touring the US in support. The band’s trek across Europe in 2010 left a trail of busted gear, annoyed booking agents and new fans behind them. TV Ghost’s sophomore full-length was recorded by Greg Ashley (Gris Gris), and Mass Dream is by far their clearest and most coherent release to date. While sacrificing none of the band’s scuzz-punk dementia, this album is far less dense and impenetrable than its predecessor; Ghost frontman Tim Gick’s lyrics are clearer and his complex song structure a bit easier to get a handle on. That said, this is still blood-boiling, spastic and down right evil music by anyone’s standards. Live, there are few who can match them. Their sets are explosive, destructive and out of control. Gick howls as if his bowels are being extracted through his gluteus, while his eyes roll back in his head and the rest of the...
LP $12.00
04/26/2011
CD $12.00
04/12/2011
MP3 $9.90
04/12/2011
In The Red is proud to announce the debut full-length album from Lafayette, Indiana, creepers TV Ghost--a band who ushers in a vile and squalid new disposition to ugly art punk and carves out a black hole of pestilence that will delight its sufferers to no end. If one can swim through the murky grime long enough to let one's frazzled senses adjust, it's clear how effectively TV Ghost incorporates the licentious nuances of The Cramps' earliest scuzz, no wave's cacophony, and Suicide's terrifying throb alongside cavernous bellows from the depths of the third layer of hell. With their 7-inch and 12-inch EP on Die Stasi Records as evidence of their shambolic songwriting and inhuman creativity within rock's static-laden low-end sound spectrum, TV Ghost now have aligned their belligerence with In The Red and delivered Cold Fish--ten tracks of a teeth-shattering, unhinged, and thoroughly penetrating version of what's lurking in punk's darkest corners. "This record sounds like a nightmare." --Tom Shannon, Cheater Slicks
LP $12.00
08/11/2009
CD $12.00
08/11/2009
MP3 $9.90
08/11/2009