Artist: United Ghosts

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Tonight's touts: ► Morrissey plays a sold-out show at the Shrine Auditorium. ► It's a night for some very good shoegazer rock at the Satellite — Tennis System (that's their video for "Arcane," above) celebrates the release of its album "Teenagers," with United Ghosts (marking the release of their "Holes Into the Night" 7-inch) and Boxviolet , freshly returned from shows in France, supporting. ► Dutch DJ Sander Kleinenberg , who this summer released his debut studio album "5K," holds forth at Avalon Hollywood. [...]

For an unsigned, independent artist, singer-guitarist Axel Steuerwald has always been able to coax a big, radio-ready sound out of his bands' recordings, first with Mere Mortals and now with the new quartet United Ghosts . So it goes with the new single "Holes Into the Night," a dreamy, driving slice of neo-shoegaze rock made in Steuerwald's home studio in Silver Lake. In singer-bassist Sha Sabi, guitarist Jason O and drummer Sean Burgess, Steuerwald has found bandmates who share his vision for marrying psychedelic Britpop with electro trappings. "Holes Into the Night," just out as a limited-edition 7-inch (the [...]

When he fronted the lamentably overlooked Mere Mortals , Axel Steuerwald fashioned tunes that seemed beamed across the Atlantic from Manchester and sprinkled with garage-rock fairy dust. His new quartet United Ghosts , founded with Sha Sabi, build on that approach — driving Euro dance rhythms, hazy guitar and synth textures and boy/girl vocals straight out of the jetstream. United Ghosts' debut 7-inch, "Holes Into the Night," is like a dream in fast motion, the kind of roll-the-windows-down psych-rocker you used to hear on the radio in 1990s, and would welcome today. ||| Stream: [...]

• United Ghosts - Holes into the Night