The Ghost Sonata

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"Then I felt ashamed and disgusted at myself. My conscious pricked me for the ingratitude I had shown to a family who had thrown open this harbour of refuge to me before, as they had done to so many other shipwrecked mariners." --August Strindberg, "Inferno" The Ghost Sonata is Coin locker kid's second album, "an isolationist romance in three acts," released after The Lars Demos. This album features a very distinct sound from everything he made afterward, being much more reminiscent of the blogsphere abstract hip hop and Trip Hop of the time. In an interview with WMUC, Devyn stated the album is a story in 3 acts, wherein the story is of three characters and their relation, somewhat bound to real life events. The characters are named after the end of every act (Usurper, Deceiver & Silencer). "WMUC: I want to ask you more about The Ghost Sonata. I might not be well-read enough to understand if it is or not, but what are the connections between the album and The Ghost Sonata, the play? CLK: By Strindberg. That was very intentional. The Strindberg play – well, I’ve never read it, I’ve just Wikipedia’d it (laughs) you know, you know. It’s a boy who’s going through a house, and there’s ghosts, and very bourgeoisie people, and his interactions with them, and there’s a lot of Freudian elements to it. So in that sense, the record was parallel to that. It has 21 tracks, so I sort of considered it a play, in three acts, 7 tracks each. WMUC: “An isolationist romance.” CLK: Yeah! Th

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