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Sydney experimental four-piece, Ghoul, have announced they will release an all-new mini-album, entitled Dunks, in February 2011 on Speak N Spell (Kite Club)

“We were listening to a lot of dubstep tunes and fiddling around in Ableton, trying to emulate drum patterns that we had been hearing,” explains vocalist and frontman, Ivan Vizintin. “The song took a huge left turn when we introduced the synth; everything just fell into place after that.”

Bursting onto the scene in 2009, Ghoul made an immediate impact with their mini-album, A Mouthful Of Gold, which they distributed free at their shows and on Bandcamp. The free release earned the band widespread adulation, with Mess+Noise praising Vizintin’s “Antony-esque croon”, Polaroids Of Androids describing it as “the musical equivalent of Frank Sinatra discovering beautifully sloppy high school punk rock”, and RoseQuartz comparing its sound to “the weirder moments of Radiohead's Kid A”.

Soon enough the band were sharing stages with the crème of Australia’s experimental underground, including PVT, Seekae and Pikelet. PVT’s own Laurence Pike openly professes to being one of the band’s biggest fans: “Built upon the precocious talents and distinctive voice of singer/engineer/producer, Ivan Vizintin, their music can be abstract, atmospheric, intensely rhythmic and at times defies conventional structures, yet it’s fiercely melodic, inventive and accessible, maintaining a focus worthy of repeated listening.” (read full write-up here)

The release of Dunks on Sydney imprint, Speak N Spell, in January will act as a precursor to the band’s debut full-length – due 2nd quarter 2011.“We are working very hard in the studio, developing as many demos as we can,” says Ivan, “then picking and choosing what we will flesh out further.”

Ghoul’s Dunks will be out Feb 1st, 2011 on Speak N Spell