Hurricane bells used
to hang from the tops of seaside trees, heavy bells designed to ring out only
when a storm approached. Fittingly, Tonight Is The Ghost, the debut album
from the band Hurricane Bells, is a moody affair. A mix of somber undercurrents
and chiming guitars, the album is at once plaintive and triumphant, bathed in
echo and reverb. Yet there's a looseness, hope, and soulfulness in its
melancholic tempest; a late night thundershower with a new day on its heels.
Hurricane Bells is a new project from Steve Schiltz, singer and guitarist of
Longwave for nearly ten years. After touring the better part of last year
around Longwave's fourth album Secrets Are Sinister - a critical success and
arguably the best of the band's career - Schiltz set up shop to create a new
project with little else than his MacBook and an Mbox. He wrote, played,
recorded, and mixed every note himself, arranging what would become Tonight Is
The Ghost. Some songs were fully crafted within the past 18 months, while
others are newly architected from pieces written throughout his years as a
songwriter.
Vagrant Records will release Tonight Is The Ghost digitally on November 10,
2009. A b-side, "Monsters", appears on the soundtrack of the
second film of the Twilight franchise, New Moon.
