This song takes about 2 minutes to get going, so give it time.

Dan Friel is one of the three guys behind Parts & Labor, one of my favorite bands that I've discovered in the last year or so. He's an interesting guy, armed with a keyboard and a set of effects pedals and other shit (probably one of those cool KORG boxes with the flashy light touchpad sound manipulator things) and if you're familiar at all with Parts & Labor it's pretty much immediately clear what his specialty is: crunchy electronic sounds.

On Ghost Town there is nothing but these sounds. No guitar, no real drums, no serious vocals, just an endless assault of the sounds of dying machines. It's surprisingly listenable, it never really descends into straight noise, and I like most of it. Unfortunately there's just not a lot of places to shove this kind of stuff into my daily music routine. This song is the only one that's made it into my normal shuffle rotation. The rest is just too weird, too noisy, for random consumption.

This is an album to listen to straight through, and not mixed with anything else. You gotta give yourself into the world of Dan Friel's electronic noise, which to me sounds like the world alluded to in Parts & Labor's Mount Misery (one of my super favorite songs, aww). This album is a desolate landscape filled with broken pieces of robots and a tattered remnants of civilization, and now you're dancing. Woo!