I didn’t get into the details of this album as much as I have with other albums in the past—because I didn’t feel the album asked that of me.  I felt like the album was saying, “Kick back my friend and we will entertain you.  Don’t worry about the details.  Just have some fun.”  So that’s what I did.  And I can say that I do have a lot of fun listening to this album.  And, of course, I love that they’re from SLC. Baby Ghosts is a co-ed Oxford Collapse.  They remind me of each other so much.  The crunchy guitars, the all out thrill of the performance, the bombastic drums.  And I love it.  I love almost everything about this album.  However, after about three or four times through the album, I started to feel like maybe I was wrong; like I’d come in too hot—wanting to like it instead of actually liking it. 

I broke it down over the course of the next listen through.  I had no glaring problems with it.  Except I began to realize I didn’t like the one girl singer—the one with the softer voice.  I’ll just call her Meg (White) because she totally does add to the band but she shouldn’t be given the lead singer duties.  I basically skipped all her songs: “Crash,” “Hevy Hed,” “COOKIES”—which is probably the worst song in recorded history—“alien.edu,” and “Computers/Internets.” I don’t really like those songs.  But when I skipped those songs, or didn’t pay much attention to them, I was back to loving the album! 

I love “MSRPRSNTTN” a lot.  “Ghost Boyfriend.”  “Oh, A Surprise!” (I love the girl yelling “What a surprise!” and “Hiding in plain sight!”) and “Karen” (which, along with “Ghost Boyfriend” remind me most of Oxford Collapse.)

To me, staying power is the greatest test of an album.  And not only can I see myself listening to this album in the future, but this album made me go out and buy their first album and their EPs as well.  So…well done Baby Ghosts.  I almost lost you there at the beginning, but now we’re good.  We’re good.

Drums: 5

Voice(s): 4--keep Meg off the mic

Ghost themes: 2--lots of ghost references with these guys

Local Flavor: 5

High/Low (a statistic I just invented that measures the difference between the high points of the album in relation to the low points--the higher the number the better.  An album with a high High/Low shines in that the lows don't really bring the album down; an album with a low High/Low doesn't have the strength/creativity/energy to rise above it's own low points): 4.  Even though there are basically four or five songs on this album I'd skip right away, the other stuff totally makes up for it.

How quickly it made me want to purchase their other work: 5--immediately

Final note: Coincidentally, you recommend Oxford Collapse AND Baby Ghosts to me and they remind me so much of each other.  Props to DMC.