What's new for GKID?
- Forthcoming single Biceps (April 30th) - see full preview, download + press release
- New single I Don't Need Help (March 26th) - see full preview, download + press release
- I Don't Need Help music video to follow in April 2021
Bio
Matthew Xavier Corrigan transcends the boundaries of genre with his project Ghostking is Dead, fuseing Irish indie rock with notes of hip-hop and bedroom pop over jazzy chords, carving out his own sonic niche somewhere between Nealo’s INNRSPACE recordings, Villagers’ dabbling with synths, and murkier uncharted territory. Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop has compared his work to that of King Krule and Destroyer. His music finds itself in the midst of a national cultural moment; between rising house prices, rising sea levels, rising anxieties, tumultuous cultural tides.
The range can be seen in where the wide array of places his music turns up - landing on end-of-year lists by Nialler9 and the Thin Air, with notable local coverage from RTÉ, District Magazine, GoldenPlec and the Irish Times. Tokyo appeared on District Magazine’s hip-hop playlist and Anthony Fantano's The Needle Drop, the new-wave revival sound of Deflector earned a spot on Spotify’s global hip-hop playlist Free Form. He can be heard behind the boards on Alex Gough’s breakout hit FOOL, and in his touring band.
His live performance swings from contemplative to explosive, often accelerates these elements with a punk urgency, his commanding role as a frontman grounding the five-piece. Over the last two years, the show has landed successfully at festival stages like Body & Soul, Quarter Block Party and It Takes A Village.
In 2021, Ghostking is Dead promises a surge of new activity with new music every 6-8 weeks; celebrating the liberty of making something new every day for its own sake, sonic self-discovery and the joy of overturning the boundaries of genre from the comfort of one's own home.
Previous campaigns
- Illicit Crates series - 3 Songs (December 2020), Consortium (November 2020)
- Birdsong - single release (summer 2020), North Kerry remixes (autumn 2020)
- Fever Dreaming - an EP campaign from February 2020
- Deflector - single release, summer 2019
- This is Doubt - EP campaign (autumn 2018), remixes (spring 2019)
- Sweet Boy - EP: one of the first Hausu releases in January 2018
Most recent photoshoot
All images by Deirdre O'Callaghan
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Links
Ghostking is Dead: https://twitter.com/ghostkingisdead https://instagram.com/ghostkingisdead https://ghostkingisdead.bandcamp.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/2M6TzNsD3sJEwxiJJlRs63 Hausu on Social Media: https://instagram.com/_hausu_ https://facebook.com/hausurecords https://twitter.com/_hausu_ A playlist of our biggest songs to date: https://hau.su/spotlight