cool-ghouls

San Francisco's Cool Ghouls releasing new LP (stream a track)

by Bill Pearis

Cool Ghouls

San Francisco’s Cool Ghouls straddle a line between the present and the past. In tight with the current garage/psych scene, their sound also hearkens back to the days of Haight-Ashbury scene. Their sophomore album, A Swirling Fire Burning Through The Rhye, is out November 11 via Empty Cellar and was recorded live to tape by Sonny Smith of Sunsets fame and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young (Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, etc etc). The new album’s opening cut, “And it Grows,” is a great example of what Cool Ghouls do, ramblin’ psych with twangy harmonies. It’s a good one and makes its premiere in this post.

The band’s only upcoming show at the moment is a Halloween show at SF’s Thee Parkside. Hopefully they’ll be heading East at some point. “And it Grows” plus another track stream off the new album, below…