_{By Andy McFerren}

Every year in Utah, Velour Live Music Gallery puts on the Cowboys and Indies event, putting together a couple of indie bands and a couple of folk bands on the lineup each night. Except instead of needing multiple bands, one indie and one country, Casio Ghost single handedly checks both boxes. The band is the perfect fusion of the two, creating the fascinating flavor palate that is “cowboy indie.” What a fusion restaurant it would be! It’s not quite Americana, but they have a little too much drawl and a little too much twang for an indie rock band.

All of this to say, Postmodern Blues by Casio Ghost is Michael J. Fox at the beginning of Back to the Future Part III when they first send him back to the Wild West.

I will further describe the sonic landscape of this album with another image. Think of a one stoplight town – the kind you come across driving through much of the West if you don’t take the freeway that is depicted with a yellow filter in movies. On one corner of this one intersection, there is a bar, and in that bar, there’s a live band. It’s the only band in town. They play at the bar, they play at the high school’s prom, and they play at weddings. They can slow it down, and they can’t get people on their feet doing the boot scootin’ boogie. 

Now take that sound and combine it with lines like “bipedal primates, a dying rock floating in nothing… no point in wasting the time being someone else,” and boy oh boy do we have a record in Postmodern Blues! 

I heard the line, “Complacency: Death’s deadbeat cousin. Wait and you’ll see that time is just an illusion.” I didn’t need any help initiating an existential crisis, but that lyric will certainly prolong it. 

Be sure to follow Casio Ghost on Instagram and check out “Five Years” below.