• 1. Prologue (feat Malik Ameer Crumpler)
      • 2. Nighthawks
      • 3. Play Dead (feat Malik Ameer Crumpler & Mark Millington)
      • 4. Queen Of Cats
      • 5. The City Is Beautiful (feat Malik Ameer Crumpler & Mark Millington)
      • 6. Nightbus 3AM
      • 7. Organ/Lucid (feat Malik Ameer Crumpler)
      • 8. Apres Minuit (feat Mark Millington)
      • 9. West (feat Malik Ameer Crumpler)
      • 10. Chapter 1 - A Boy
      • 11. Ghouls
      • 12. North
      • 13. Chapter 2 - A Party
      • 14. Chapter 3 - A Girl
      • 15. A Ghost's Lament (feat Malik Ameer Crumpler)
      • 16. Chapter 4 - A Monster
      • 17. Moonlight
      • 18. Chapter 5 - A Home
      • 19. Orca/Burial

      On Ghouls, Bastien Keb drifts through 19 tracks of half-remembered nights, cinematic moods and street-level atmospheres. He does so with a melange of strings, flutes, horns, theremins and more, and everyone is hand-played with real human tells. Malik Ameer Crumpler's voice threads through the album to bring poetry to Keb's swirling instrumentals and hints of library music, 90s skate videos and movie scores all feature. It's an illuminating listen with a narrative you can invent yourself. Keb calls it for "anyone feeling lost in a world that's lost itself," and we can't argue.

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