The album was supposed to come out shortly after the U.S. presidential election in 2020, a reflection on Donald Trump’s contentious rule. But the pandemic-prompted delay makes Impera‘s release seem even more timely in the wake of Prequelle‘s foresight, the Russia-Ukraine crisis and other events of the past two years. It’s somewhat dark at heart, as was its predecessor, but Ghost coat it all in a...
Rhik Samadder tries … ghost hunting: ‘There are faint children running around in smocks’
The planchette slides across the surface of the ornate Ouija board. It settles on one letter, then another. This is what I’ve been dreading. We’re sat around a table in Avenue House, a Grade II listed Victorian mansion in Finchley, north London, in a dark room that was once a tuberculosis ward. Across the floor, a children’s lullaby suddenly starts playing from a music box activated by motion...