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Following 2011sKiss Each Other Clean, which debuted at number two on the US Billboard chart,Ghost on Ghostis the fifth studio album from Austin-based Sam Beam.

While Rolling Stone said ofKiss Each Other Cleanthat pop music hadnt seen anything like it since the heyday of Cat Stevens, and Pitchfork said it more closely resembles the lush, gold-toned singer songwriter records of the late 60s and early 70s Astral Weeks, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Beam felt it time to move from what he called the anxious tension from this record and his previous one (The Shepherds Dog). This record felt like a reward to myself after the way I went about making the last few, he says.

Recorded in New York and produced by Beams longtime associate Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone, Fruit Bats), helping achieve Beams vision was a group of stellar musicians including Rob Burger of Tin Hat Trio, Steve Bernstein, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and Briggan Krauss of Sex Mob, jazz drummer Brian Blade, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes of the Jazz Passengers, bassist Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan’s band), cellist Marika Hughes, Maxim Moston and Doug Wieselman of Antony and the Johnsons, and Anja Wood. Burger (Tin Hat Trio) has worked with Beam intermittently through the years and handled arrangements for strings and horns onGhost on Ghost.