Vampire

This came out a week ago, in time for Halloween so I'm a week late but better late than never- and I guess there's no such thing as late for the undead. OBOST's three track EP Vampire is led by the title track and is filled with spooky noises- owls hoot and creatures crawl- but the music is a delight, alt- pop/ electronic synthwave with a lovely laid back vocal from young Bobby Langfield. 

Even better is the Blood Dub, a stripped back, darker and weirder version that sounds like something prowling in the woods after nightfall, insistent synths and bass, everything growing in intensity and becoming increasingly hypnotic. You'll have to invite him in. 

A third track, Keep Your Eyes Shut, is so far gone that its difficult to tell what's real and unreal- a soundscape backing of noise and screams, gurgles and something descending down a lift shift with random bursts of voices from American TV. Something wicked this way comes. 

You can get the EP Vampire at Bandcamp.

When I was a teenager I read Stephen King's Salem's Lot and it coincided with the 1979 David Soul version for TV being shown. I don't know if I had an overactive imagination but it got to a point where I could only read the book during daylight hours. The nightwalking vampires that terrorised the town of Jeruslaem's Lot in the novel had me scared stupid and I don't think I was easily spooked- I was reading 2000AD and Starlord as an eight year old and they both contained some horrific storylines not least Fiends Of The Eastern Front (actually that one did spook me). By coincidence while channel surfing late one evening at the weekend I happened upon an episode of the David Soul TV version of Salem's Lot and it brought it all back....