‘It’s called See You Later Simulator,’ Aaron Behrens says of Ghostland Observatory’s first new album in eight years.
‘I’ve always been on the sci-fi edge of things, which is just a reflection of being a child of the ’80s and growing up with video games and computers, but also remembering a time before those things were common. I think all of that comes into play on this record. It’s a real comment on what’s going on right now, and on trying to figure out what’s reality and what’s a S̳͎̯̞i̩̺̗̖mulà̙͕̮t̢ion̙͚̥͇.’
Behrens and longtime partner Thomas Ross Turner are releasing Ghostland Observatory’s See You Later Simulator on Trashy Moped September 7th, and have set out to create a style of music that existed only in the pair’s c҉o͘ll͜e͞cti͏v͝e ͠c̨on̵sc͡ious͜ness. Additionally, the band is taking their fierce and radiant performance out on a full US tour starting September 26th in Tulsa, OK. The New York Times raved over the live show, ‘Mr. Behrens sings with the heavy-breathing, arena-scale hysteria of Robert Plant, Jack White or Freddie Mercury; Mr. Turner gets nasty distortion from his syn̡the͏s͡i̴ze̴rs and sometimes… adds his own drum kit for a flat-out rock stomp. Old electro sounds and disco-era strings… Ghostland Observatory hits too hard.’