Even in the fractured, post-punk times that I grew up in, a time when there were impassable demarcations between genres, where a musical gang mentality prevailed, where you wore your sonic colors on your sleeve, often quite literally, when the worlds of analog traditions and the immerging digital pioneers were sworn enemies, the gothic and the dance worlds seemed allies.
“Show and Tell,” the first single to tease the audience and test the water ahead of Ghost Fetish’s (great name, by the way) second album, feels like it could have been the product of that fantastic creative melting pot.
But I don’t want to imply that this is mere pastiche or plagiarism, far from it, but it does help to have a baseline, a starting point as reference. “Show and Tell” might nod to that same blend of synth creativity and alternative sonics, the one that gave us alternative dance, darkwave, synthwave, and the Blitz Kids such as Visage who would eventually take everything overground under the name New Romantics, but the polish and the poise, the production and the perfection with which it is delivered speak volumes about its modernity.
There is a mellifluousness to their melody, a beauty to the brooding quality, a grace to their groove, and a seduction in their sonics. We may have been here before, sort of, but it was rarely this deftly done.
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