While comparisons to Pere Ubu, the Birthday Party or even a male version of the Slits were fitting in the past, TV Ghost now come off like Echo & the Bunnymen circa ‘Heaven Up Here’ or ‘Porcupine,’ when they were at their most melancholic. The 10 songs on ‘Disconnect’ are awash in reverb-drenched atmospherics and psychedelic instrumentation, carried along at a stoner’s pace by a slow-marching rhythm section and imbued with morbid crooning by frontman Tim Gick.TV Ghost is arguably noisier and more innovative than Interpol and more unsettling than contemporaries Weekend. They’re clearly well versed in the dark post-punk of countless ’80s bands, and with ‘Disconnect,’ they’ve returned with a worthy addition to the record collection of anyone who likes to revel in the gloomier side of rock music.
