Music is a Hungry Ghost

TO ROCOCO ROT are back with their fourth album MUSIC IS A HUNGRY GHOST, which was co-produced by New York DJ and musician I-SOUND. Those familiar with their previous work will find that MUSIC IS A HUNGRY GHOST sees the band refine their talent for sumptuous and restrained instrumental soundscapes, underpinned by Stefan Schneider's lugubrious basslines. But it also exhibits even greater skill at resolving the conflict between abstract electronica and contemporary dance music. The new album sees TO ROCOCO ROT at their most accessible, weaving intricate melodies amongst intimate sounds, whilst maintaining the trademark warmth and elegance that has always lain deep at the heart of their sound. But MUSIC IS A HUNGRY GHOST is less a commercialisation of the TO ROCOCO ROT style, and more a distillation of what they have always been about, the combination of random sounds with a structure that slowly reveals itself. TO ROCOCO ROT's music is gentle, dreamlike, graceful, utterly engaging and end