Old haunts is a masterpiece ... from first listen the whole album resonated with me ... the style the production the superb musicianship ... not one to compare but l hear hints of “golden melodies of tomorrow“ and “simplex” in the mix ... the songs have a complexity and simplicity to them ... it does demand an attentive listener and isn’t one to cherry pick... its ridiculous that one man can continue to create such beautiful music after all that has already gone before .... long live Bill Nelson ♥️
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First impressions ... 1/ “Gentle Spirits Prevail” - sweetly swinging on the cymbals, dragonfly wings percussions, ghost choir grooves like Disneyland ghosts ... “Wizard of Oz” trees ... 2/“Once Upon A River” - irresistible sing-along melody that evokes early-mid century films, evokes hiking along tracks near river ... singing in the rain ... 3/“Rain Town” - Gliding across splattering puddles and choppy skies. The meeting of extraterrestrials and humans through the medium of foggy rain and shadows. Dancing guitar across funky swaying geometry .... 4/“Antique Interiors” - a similar mood to “Perfect Monsters” ... a free feeling of soothing psychedelic ascension within a room, amidst light and shadow. 5/“In A Haunted Arcade” - Chords of sherbet, silken angels ... ancient Hawaii ... summer palaces on slopes ... the terraces traced over by a laser beam made of ebow-assisted guitar solo. 6/“There Are Ghosts Here” - Beams of grace through the solar system also rock out to modern existential yearnings of the ghosts within that sail dreams above the night sea. 7/“Bells Sing Sweet Across The Meadow” - A time to pause in the beauty of it all. Tears as memories as tears as memories. 8/ “The Phantom Palace of the Prince of Dreams” - The guitars sing of a cool place with its mysterious passages, glistening and glowing. 9/“As The Stars Begin To Glow” - The funky angel of twilight illuminates memories, velvets, silver swinging. 10/“Lost In The Cosmos Again” - On horseback the Cosmic Cowboy declares bliss felt while strumming through the endless blue. 11/“My New Erotic Guest” - Funky fun-house mirrors, glitter, hallucinogenic aeroplanes, masks, love-ghosts, shooting stars and hidden treasure. 12/“To Imagine Is Hard” - Waltzing through innocence and wisdom, melancholic beauty, strength and optimism in the dim and rainy realm. 13/“This Gilded Age” - Teenage fun cinematically looped and cascaded ... Locarno ... magic bus to Eastmoor .... Carnaby Street ... gold and dangers 14/“When Art Schools Shaped Tomorrow” - Stretching possibilities ... Doppler .... melancholic optimism ... Hermes ... 15/“The Darkness Will Remain” - a kindred spirit converses ... funky psychedelic darkness ... for those who yearn for BBD, please check in with those vocal harmonies !! 16/“Soft Light” - it flickers ... diamonds on water ... geometric the sculpture ... soft light sparkling blues ...