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Fleurs
Freddy Ruppert is the founder of Former Ghosts, but listeners might be more familiar with the other two-thirds of the band, Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Zola Jesus' Nika Roza. While the trio's debut album, Fleurs, isn't quite as severe as Xiu Xiu or as unearthly as Zola Jesus' music, its harsh beauty and vulnerability is certainly of a piece with those groups. Like these bands, and contemporaries such as Cold Cave, Ruppert and his fellow Ghosts reinvent and deconstruct synth pop by contrasting and blurring overtly mechanical, detached-sounding electronics with highly emotional melodies and topping it all with heroic doses of noise. The damaged 8-bit tones on songs like "Hello Again" whip up m...
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