All Souls Post “Roam” Video; Ghosts Among Us Coming Soon
Last I heard, Los Angeles heavy rockers All Souls were looking at an October release date for their third album, Ghosts Among Us. The band recently completed a West Coast run alongside Ape Machine, played Ripplefest Texas and announced more dates with High Desert Queen and Fatso Jetson, the latter with whom they also share the new Live From Total Annihilation (review here) split LP, the audio taken from the livestream the two bands did together last year (review here). So yes, it’s been a lot of All Souls around here lately. To be honest, it’s starting to get a little embarrassing. I swear, All Souls, I just really dig the record. The call isn’t coming from inside the house or anything.
The once-and-perhaps-again four-piece — you’ll note the trio photo above, that’s bassist/backing vocalist Meg Castellanos, drummer Tony Tornay and guitarist/vocalist Antonio Aguilar under those masks — had Black Sabbitch vocalist Alice Austin out with them on guitar/backing vocals to Ripplefest, and I’m not sure if that’s a permanent lineup addition, but even listening to “Roam,” the new single and now video from Ghosts Among Us, it makes sense why they’d continue to seek out a second guitarist to fill out the lineup. Certainly the Alain Johannes production on the new record did not result in any fewer layers in the tracks..
And believe it or not I’m still not actually reviewing the album yet — I put in request to stream it, we’ll see if that comes together; fingers crossed — “Roam” represents the well the record’s blend of post-punk spaciousness, melody, emotional and sonic weight, and catchy craftsmanship. Their two prior albums also successfully walked between atmosphere, mood and structure, but if you heard those and you hear this, the progression will be evident. If you didn’t hear those, bloody hell, it’s not too late.
More to come? Still? I don’t know, probably. If I can’t go a week without blah-blahing about how good this band is, maybe through sheer osmosis a few eyes scrolling past will catch, listen, and convert. That’s the basic underlying theory of a good part of my life at this point, when applied more generally, but to bottom line it, when Ghosts Among Us shows up in my top 10 of 2022, don’t be surprised. There. All the love in the universe. Sincerely, some vague notion of a dude on the other side of a screen.
Enjoy:
All Souls, “Roam” official video
All Souls’ 3rd full length Ghosts Among Us is slated to come out this fall 2022 on Oscura Records. Pre-orders are available HERE: http://allsoulsband.com/
Roam from the album Ghosts Among Us on Oscura Records.
Music written and performed by All Souls.
Directed and edited by Meg Castellanos.
Recorded by Eddie Rivas at Total Annihilation Studios in Los Angeles. Produced by Alain Johannes.
All Souls are:
Antonio Aguilar – Guitar/vocals
Meg Castellanos – Bass/vocals
Tony Tornay – Drums
