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Every month I am allotted 90 songs from my eMusic subscription. Most of the time I kinda shoot in the dark and try to find new music I enjoy. I have a couple of different ways of discovering new music. For the most part these methods have been very successful in the past. The last couple of months however have been a bit slow…until now.

This month I was turned onto a band by the name of Ghosts and Vodka which reassured me of the existence of a higher power. Not since the day I took a shot and downloaded Lava Land by Piglet have I been so excited about a band, and music in general. There isn’t anything I don’t like about this band; the songs don’t all sound the same, they aren’t too long or short, they don’t get incredibly repetitive, and best of all there is no singing.

This is the Wikipedia entry for the band:

Ghosts and Vodka was an instrumental math rock band known for their impressive technical skills. The band was made up of guitar virtuoso Victor Villareal (ex-Cap’n Jazz), guitarist Sam Zurick (ex-Cap’n Jazz, currently in Joan of Arc and Make Believe), bassist Erik Bocek (ex-Tetsuo, ex-Joan of Arc) and drummer Scott Shellhammer (ex-Tetsuo, currently in American Heritage). The band formed after Bocek and Zurick ran into Villareal and Shellhammer at a Sky Corvair reunion show in 1998. Bocek and Zurick were both members of Joan of Arc at the time but quit shortly after hooking up with Villareal and Shellhammer (Zurick would return to Joan of Arc several years later) . Ghosts and Vodka ceased playing sometime in 2001 after Villareal and Zurick opted to concentrate on Owls, which saw them reuniting with their ex-Cap’n Jazz bandmates Mike and Tim Kinsella. In 2003, the Sixgunlover label compiled the group’s full anthology onto one CD.

Check it out below if you will. If you dig it and you don’t have an eMusic subscription yet you can get it for free here.

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