Pre-order of Ghost Brain. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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releases April 4, 2023
$8USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Ghost Brain on black vinyl. Extremely limited pressing of only 100 copies!
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You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases April 4, 2023
item ships out on or around April 3, 2023
$25USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Ghost Brain on black vinyl bundled with a 9"x12" poster of the "Buck Gooter watching Todd's shadowplay in Oklahoma City, 2018" back cover photo by Morgan Garrett, feral-style screenprinted by BB w/ embossed logo. Extremely limited vinyl pressing of only 100 copies!
Includes digital pre-order of Ghost Brain.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases April 4, 2023
item ships out on or around April 3, 2023
edition of 10
2 remaining
$35USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Ghost Brain on black vinyl & Ghost Brain label t-shirt (silver ink on black shirts). Extremely limited vinyl pressing of only 100 copies!
Includes digital pre-order of Ghost Brain.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases April 4, 2023
item ships out on or around April 3, 2023
$45USDor more
T-Shirt/Shirt
Ghost Brain record label image screenprinted in silver ink on black shirts. Download code for the Ghost Brain album included.
shipping out on or around April 4, 2023
$20USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Ghost Brain on CD!
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You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases April 4, 2023
item ships out on or around April 3, 2023
$10USDor more
Cassette + Digital Album
Ghost Brain on cassette! The music on SIDE B is slightly different from all other versions of the album!
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You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases April 4, 2023
item ships out on or around April 3, 2023
$10USDor more
Cassette + Digital Album
Both collaborations between Buck Gooter & A Place To Bury Strangers (Ghost Brain and Thirsty Knights) in a specially priced bundle.
Includes digital pre-order of Ghost Brain.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
digital album releases April 4, 2023
item ships out on or around April 3, 2023
$15USDor more
Four LP bundle! One day only!
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Get the Ghost Brain LP bundled with Witch Molecules, First Decade, and Head In A Bird Cage for a special price. One day only!
Witch Molecules was released on the German label X-Mist in 2013 and probably only 200 or so copies ever made it out of Deutschland! These LP sleeves are a little scuffed up after sitting on a shelf at Dischord for ten years, but the vinyl is in unplayed condition!
All on black vinyl except for HIABC, which has two colors to choose from! Only FOUR sets available!
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You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
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Four LP bundle! One day only!
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Get the Ghost Brain LP bundled with The Spider's Eyes, First Decade, and Head In A Bird Cage for a special price. One day only! All on black vinyl except for HIABC, which has three colors to choose from! Only three sets available!
Includes digital pre-order of Ghost Brain.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Burning Glass (B. Brett / BG)
Life spent staring at burning glass
Every liquid crystal fire in hand:
Nothing but ash.
Wishing it would all turn back into sand
Burn me to ash
Vitrify me
Make me burning glass
Vitrify me
I know you're on the other side of this burning glass
(Ever feel like dust?)
It's curling around me, it's closing in fast
(Ever feel like dust?)
Well hello sir! It's your luck day!
I think you have the potential to be glass
Let me tell you about this exciting new offer
First, we grind you into sand
Then I'll shoot a lightning bolt from my hand
and VOILA!
You'll be glass
Let's get started right away
You don't wanna be late!!!
I'm stuck in the blue light void
with all the trendy kids from high school
I tried to avoid
And what's this?
Oh no it's home room!
I'm doomed to home room!
All this enragement for six percent engagement (if you're lucky).
Fragments (B. Brett / BG)
Body boiled and flesh is scraped off the bone
Salt cured the heart for the journey home
Somewhere else:
The superheated offering is thrown
So when it hits the water it explodes
I don't know why they lied
Before I hit the sky
I don't know why they still lie
When I'm packed up and ready for the ride
I don't know why they lied
Before I hit the sky
I don't know why they still lie
When I fracture from the fire
When you find me like this
You'll make excuses, a million reasons
When you lie to me like this
You'll have excuses, a million reasons why
Time Flies (T. Turtle / BG)
There's a fly
In my ice cream
The ice cream melts
But not the fly
14.
Sun T
about
“This is ghost-motivated electronic rock.”
That’s how Buck Gooter’s sole earthly member, Billy Brett, describes the band’s upcoming album, Ghost Brain. It depicts a collaboration beyond the mortal coil, as he honors the dying wish of his bandmate, Terry Turtle, who passed away in 2019. Terry urged Billy to keep playing his music and continue their musical partnership, which saw the duo record more than a dozen records and tour relentlessly, equally mesmerizing and freaking out crowds in hundreds of gritty DIY spaces and revered venues alike over the course of 14 years. That promise culminated in their 2021 album Head In A Bird Cage, and persists with Ghost Brain.
As Ghost Brain symbolizes Terry’s eternal presence in Buck Gooter through a vast archive of recordings and raw lyrics, the title also implies the state of the band beyond just this album. There is no era of Buck Gooter that can be truly labeled as “after Terry Turtle.”
Ghost Brain was written following a two-year songwriting break for Buck Gooter, as the COVID-19 pandemic halted touring plans and Billy took time to figure out the band’s next steps. That downtime was not without experimentation, however, and ideas sketched out in quarantine became some of the substance of Ghost Brain. Billy began writing these songs as he traditionally would for past Buck Gooter albums - cobbling together a pile of beats which he would then send to Terry, and the two would build the songs from there. This time, he sent those beats to Oliver Ackermann, frontman of noise rock titans A Place To Bury Strangers, who mastered the demos at his New York studio, Death By Audio. Billy later traveled to Death By Audio to track the songs and complete the album.
The album contains the hallmarks of Buck Gooter’s sound, described about as close as one can attempt as “primal industrial blues” - chaos, synth-driven noise, the clash of machinery, caveman-tier percussion, and Billy’s sardonic clamor. Oliver Ackermann features on most of the tracks as well, such as the distorted, aggro bass riff on the scorching, aptly titled “Burning Glass,” the album’s lead single. Abrasive drum samples hold up tracks like Ghost Brain’s opener, “The Serger,” “Symbiotic,” and “Tail of the Beast,” while others such as “Knurling” feature an ambient drone throughout. Like his departed bandmate, Billy even waxes poetic with spoken word performances on “Eight Bladed Iris” and “Chain Stringer Man,” where, over languid, looped, and plucked pedal steel he delivers a sarcastic, *almost* nihilistic sermon (say what you want, at least it’s an ethos). Of course, Billy’s snarl is just as frequent on the album with tracks like “Fragments,” a manifesto that boxes your ears with a clash of primitive war drums, Oliver’s bass riffs, and industrial noise.
As the album title implies, the musings of Terry’s “Ghost Brain” are present throughout the entire album, just as his guitar and chain mail mask stand as a forever haunting tribute on Buck Gooter’s stage. He can be heard through voice samples (ranging from shit talking to the last voicemail message Terry ever left on Billy's phone) and drones…even an improv MicroKorg jam. But Terry makes his entrance crooning on “Buddha,” in which he ponders mortality. Terry also sings lead on the foreboding, yet rhythmic, “Carl Sagan,” as well as “Time Flies” - which sets one of his most well-known poems to music.
Ghost Brain demonstrates the clear fact that we have not heard the last of Buck Gooter, and with more recordings left to discover, we certainly have not heard the last of Terry Turtle. But while the album continues to pay tribute to his legacy with Buck Gooter, it depicts a path forward. Billy Hunt, who collaborated with Billy Brett in the project Dendriforms, features on the track “Distant Future” - a bright and relatively uncommon optimistic number for the band - and was recently announced as Brett’s new partner in Buck Gooter. The sound throughout Ghost Brain is that of a will to rebuild after desolation. It’s almost like some of the most beloved post-apocalyptic movies: bleak, but hopeful.
--Calvin Pynn
credits
releases April 4, 2023
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Oliver Ackermann at Death By Audio, Queens, NY.
Buck Gooter is, eternally:
Terry Turtle - voices, guitars
Billy Brett - voices, electronics
Other musical contributors to Ghost Brain:
Oliver Ackermann - bass or noise and/or studio wizardry on every song
Ben Jaffe - Sax on "Tail Of The Beast"
Gary Ziroli - Chorus vocal on "Knurling"
Billy Hunt - Drums on "Distant Future"
Standing here in my kitchen after the kids have gone to bed, I find myself looking through the fridge and dancing (?) to Palberta. It's private dancing, the type no one wants to see, but it feels good to me. It's a strange, sinewy, thing. It's expressive, but not meant for public consumption. The most angular, funkless dancing you'll ever do, but you do it anyway, like you're David Byrne, it's 1983, and you've got a big new suit. albinobone
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