Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep (LP)

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Ghostpoet Album: I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep Released: Europe, 2020 Tracklist: A1 Breaking Cover A2 Concrete Pony A3 Humana Second Hand A4 Black Dog Got Silver Eyes A5 Rats In A Sack B1 This Trainwreck Of A Life B2 Nowhere To Hide Now B3 When Mouths Collide B4 I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep B5 Social Lacerations Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Ghostpoets fifth album arrived in May 2020, right as the first UK lockdown turned daily life into a slow, eerie loop. The timing fit a record that sounds like sleepless nights and city lights bleeding into puddles. Obaro Ejimiwe has been refining this mood since Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam, but I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep leans farther into a postpunk, noir palette, with guitars that twitch and hum around his talksung delivery. He stays grounded in the real world too, casting a weathered eye on politics, surveillance, and the gnawing anxiety of modern living. It is a heavy listen, but its also his most immersive. Concrete Pony sets the tone. A thick, rubbery bassline moves in slow circles while ghostly guitars flicker at the edges. Ejimiwes voice carries a calm dread, as if he has already seen the ending and is reporting back from it. He doesnt waste words. He places them carefully on the beat, letting silence do as much work as sound. Nowhere to Hide Now tightens the screws. The drums feel claustrophobic, the guitar lines skitter and dissolve, and the hook lands like a CCTV light snapping on. You can trace a line back to Tricky or early Massive Attack, but the guitars pull it closer to Wire and latenight Radiohead than triphop nostalgia. This record thrives on tension. This Trainwreck of a Life lurches and staggers, with keys that smear like wet ink. Rats in a Sack moves with a slow, queasy swagger, the kind of groove that makes your shoulders lift even as the lyrics pull you inside your head. The music isnt flashy. Its carefully built, like a dim room where your eyes adjust and small details start to jump out. Tiny synth whistles, a tremolo guitar, a distant harmony that feels half remembered. Ghostpoet has always been about atmosphere, but here the architecture is meticulous. Context matters with this album. By 2020 he had already been twice shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, for his 2011 debut and 2015s Shedding Skin, and hed edged away from rap toward a style that sits between spoken word and weary croon. Reviews at the time noted how well that shift suited these songs, and the broader mood of the year made the album feel uncomfortably prescient. In interviews around release, he talked about insomnia and social unease feeding the writing, and you can hear it in the clipped phrasing and the patient pacing. He rarely raises his voice. He doesnt need to. I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep also rewards the vinyl treatment. The low end is its secret engine, and on a good system the bass blooms while the upper registers stay airy. Spin the I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep vinyl and Concrete Pony takes on an extra physicality, that kick drum thumping like its coming from the next room. The quieter tracks open up too, with room for those eerie harmonics to hang in the air. If youre crate digging for Ghostpoet vinyl, this one feels like the latenight keeper you pull out when the lights are low. It pairs nicely with Dark Days + Canaps on the shelf, and if youre trying to buy Ghostpoet records online, most shops that specialize in UK indie and leftfield electronic stock it regularly. Ive even seen copies pop up at a Melbourne record store I haunt when traveling, and a couple of spots that ship vinyl records Australia wide tend to restock after each repress. Ghostpoet albums on vinyl dont stay in the bins for long, so grab it when you see it. Theres a livedin quality to the production that gives the songs backbone. You can almost picture the band in a small, dim studio, building loops out of simple parts, then distressing them until they feel frayed. The restraint is key. Nothing here shouts for attention. The album behaves like a long exhale, and by the end you feel the weight lifting just a little, as if the night is giving way to a dull grey morning. It isnt a hopeful record, but its humane. It looks the world in the eye. If youve followed Ghostpoet from the beginning, this plays like a culmination. If youre new, its a door into his world, one where mood carries as much meaning as the lines he speaks. In a year full of noise, he found a way to make quiet feel loud. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review