v/a- GHOST RIDERS 2LP

Highly recommended.

First pressing. Now in its second. More stock arriving soon.

A North American road trip of coming of age garage soul mapped by Ivan Liechti, Ghost Riders is Efficient Space’s latest narrative compilation, hovering in a liminal emotional ravine between moonlight melancholy, teenage heartache and unchecked, unrealised ambition. Across 17 open hearted ballads recorded 1965-1974, the 2LP collects and connects dots between British Invasion fanatics, child prodigies, the loners and the luckless, in a kind of trans-continental survey of those swept up in rock’n’roll mania and buoyed by local newspaper ads promising fame and gold records.

"Glorious, poignant selection of teenage garage nobodies. Amazing music made even more affecting by the realisation that this is the sound of high-school kids trying to strike rock and roll gold and live a different life than what the world (and society) had in store for them... and not quite getting there." - Bandcamp fan