Comparable to Possession by Evil Spirits

Techno Animal has released many different sounding albums over the last few years, but this one is the most extreme and noisy of them all. The tracks have a consistent framework of repetion and multitrack looping, but that's where the similarity ends. Here's a basic rundown of the songs:

1. Burn - This is a drum machine heavy trawl through a demolition site. The drum samples sound pretty thin and old school, while hard treble driven loops in the background hint at the underlying tonality of the album. Unnerving, but just rythmic enough to draw in unsuspecting and brave souls to the frightening journey ahead.

2. Walk then Crawl - A very heavy number indeed. One drum pattern loops over and over and over and over... it's rough sounding - almost as if the timing is just a tiny bit off - but after four or five minutes the underlying pastiche of schizophrenic noises rises to a fever pitch and creates an illusion of structure. Quite hair raising, and surprisingly infectious in a morbid way.

3. White Dog - This is the closest the album comes to mainstream listenability. You could almost dance to this track if you were fried enough in the brain to do so. The background loop sounds almost like an electrified egyptian flute or something. A dog yelps in the background.

4. Freak F u c k e r - An angry eastern bloc politician yells an order at a crowd, and they react with a cheer. This is looped ad infinitum, and the speed is manipulated to add emphasis to different parts of what is being yelled. There is background echo effect that increases incrementelly over the course of the song, as well as a chorus of what sounds like barnyard animals being tortured. Very claustrophobic and nerve racking; it's the type of track that would make people look at you as if you were insane if you played it for them.

5. The Dream Forger - Finally, a somewhat peacefull moment. A simple and elegant saxaphone loop repeats in a similar fashion to the sample in the previous song, only this time to a more hypnotic and mesmerizing effect. Trippy, but in a sad and hopeless kind of way.

6. Tough Cop/Soft Cop - Whatever sense of quiet you attained through "The Dream Forger" is oblitierated with the opening of this track. This is yet another very noisy loop with a Godflesh-like electronic drum sample. The rythm is kind of unique, but it's gets to be too much quickly. The low point of the album.

7. God Vs. Flesh - A very dark and evil soaked piano loop. This will take you into the nether worlds of your psyche and leave you there to ponder what it would feel like to be dead. Highly effective space-out music, and my personal favourite track from this album.

8. Spineless - This is too scary for words. I have never heard anything like this before or since, and even thinking about it right now is making me nervous. This track is dangerous. I suspect repeat listenings could land somebody in a mental hospital.

The strange thing about "Ghosts" is that even though most of the tracks are extremely noisy, they have a repetetive quality that will lull you into a hypnotic state if you are willing to submit. This is a big mistake if you plan on falling asleep to this album, as whenever I have I get awoken by "Spineless" as it crashes into the room.
This is a terroristic exercise in repetition which I think stands as the creation of a self limiting musical genre due to it's extremely ugly nature. Techno Animal discovered groove and ambience in subsequent releases (all of which are also worth checking out), probably because they realized it's not worth scaring your audience away.