ABOUT THE MUSIC: Ghost is an old song. Very old. Lyrically, the song has two origins: the chorus was written around 2001 after Uni while the verses were put together in 2002 while living on the Upper East Side. The original demo, since lost to a faulty hard drive, sounded troublingly similar to Travis' Blue Flashing Lights in its drum pattern. That was not the inspiration behind the song, just an unhappy detour in its evolution. The basic palette of the song is rooted in Blur's Strange News From Another Star: electric piano panned to the far left, acoustic guitar far right for the verse; the chorus is marked by stereo acoustic guitars. That idea was come upon driving a car down Hawley Highway in Michigan during a one of many hiatuses from New York. A bulk of the recording was done in Smyrna, and it was the first time using my Space Echo RE-201 in a song. The guitar feedback and background noise that bookends the track were captured from Eric's guitar in the old DUMBo Studio: the wah was picking up a Spanish-language radio station while were working on Another Winding Road, another track that has never seen the light. Another version of the song exists as a Franz Ferdinand sound-alike, though it is extremely rare and usually done a cappella after too many drinks in Atsugi proper.