The Ghost of Fashion

VINYL FORMAT. It's with great pleasure that we announce that the fourth release from Microfiche Records is Ghost of Fashion by Clem Snide. Ten years after its original release via SpinArt (a label we loved dearly) Microfiche Records is finally putting it out on vinyl. This is a fantastic record that picks up right where Your Favorite Music left off. As with all Microfiche releases this is available on vinyl for the first time ever but this time, it's on the ten year anniversary of its original release. It contains a complete lyric sheet too so you can put it on, read along and sing to your cats.

"A departure from the somber Your Favorite Music, The Ghost of Fashion is, on many levels, Eef Barzelay and Jason Glasser's greatest achievement. Barzelay has turned in a super batch of songs, harvesting his strengths and channeling them into a diverse landscape of ornery rockers and ballads of transparent, gliding simplicity. Glasser's arrangements have never been better--pushy, earnest, and bursting with beautiful details, his production swirls around and through Barzelay's lyrics without obscuring their intelligence, and when the two men's eccentric visions are in synch, the results are stunning. Particularly, "Joan Jett of Arc," a metaphor for Barzelay's first sexual experience, sparkles with innocence and humor, while "Moment in the Sun," a typically cynical musing on celebrityhood, became the theme song to the Ed television show. Elsewhere, the charming "Long Lost Twin" makes use of a subdued rockabilly shuffle, and "Chinese Baby" beautifully remakes the band's 1998 acoustic recording. Truthfully, some of this is probably going to be an unsettling experience for fans craving more of Your Favorite Music's dreamy countrysides, but Ghost's cloudy intensity is one of the most exhilarating experiences of the year." – All Music