https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts
HAINBACH: "For me this is our most „English“ record, in contrast to the „Berlin Sound“ of Pipe Dreams. The lyrics and vibe were influenced by the random encounters in the small pubs near This Museum Is Not Obsolete. From overheard bits to direct exchanges, a lot of the little seaside town of Ramsgate went into this. The opening track „Hey Johnny“ came from a pub owner complaining that all the drilling happening during the museum’s renovations almost knocked down her wall. „Little Ships“ references stories a former RAF member told us about her favorite warplanes, and seagulls from the beach are heard in „Gully Boys“.
Musically, we started as before with two guys and a drum machine in a room setup, jamming out tracks like band. But then time we added more layers, fleshing out the bare instrumentals with call and response synth parts and harmonies."
SAM BATTLE: "We recorded all of the base tracks down live onto the TEAC reel to reel which is in the cover picture and then built on top of them.
A couple of the tracks also came from when we went to Blean Wood when testing Hainbach's new portable tape recorder to record the basis of Deadwood and Gully Boys (youtu.be/tB4ejTGMI9w). I thought it would be a good idea to take us to the middle of the woods to make some songs and the floor was literally alive with moving insects, it was the height of ant season! We got the tracks, but didn't leave unbit, ha!