"Ghost" by Yellow Ostrich, Friday, June 18, 2021
Yellow Ostrich is another one of the bands I discovered on a NoiseTrade Sampler around the end of college. The band is currently the solo project of singer/songwriter Alex Schaaf . Formed in 2009, they released several albums and EPs before disbanding in 2014. However, in March of this year, Schaaf came back with a Yellow Ostrich album called Soft. Today's song comes from the 2012 EP by the same name Ghost . While being a bit of a sleeper, the minimal instrumentation in the early part of the verse along with the slow drum beat makes the song a little creepy. By the verse we have some more piano, but by the bridge we get a noisy guitar solo. Lyrically, the song talks about a relationship that's expired. He doesn't remember the color of her eyes, but he sticks with her because he's afraid of being alone. MY FAVORITE GHOST, MY PRIDE, I STUMBLE 'TIL I'M LOST. Like many very conservative Christians, Seventh-day Adventists traditionally teach their followers to a