"Looking For Mary" (The Ghost of Helags song)

The Ghost of Helags, photo courtesy the artists

The Ghost of Helags use a beat like the electronic equivalent of a fast pace tambourine strike to set the pace of “Looking For Mary” and it gives the synthpop song a character like you’re hearing an old psychedelic folk song. But the swelling synth melody and sustained keyboard chords have a brightness and uplifting quality reminiscent of Chromatics or an early OMD song and imbued with a similar sense of romanticism in a song that appears to be about finding or rediscovering one’s sense of wonder and ability to cast aside the forces that would erode and eclipse one’s passions and light. Listen to “Looking For Mary” on Spotify and follow The Ghost of Helags at the links below.