PREMIERE: Snow Ghosts, “Secret Garden (Richard Skelton Remix)”

Last summer’s A Small Murmuration LP—one of our recent Album of the Day picks—gets its lifespan extended one last time with a limited 12” treatment of “Secret Garden” next month. Due out February 10th through Houndstooth, the EP takes the title track down two very different paths: one that’s backed by the as-bonkers-as-ever beats of Matthew Herbert, and one that’s stripped bare by Richard Skelton, who delivers a drum-free rendition that dials up the melodrama and makes Snow Ghosts sound like a dream-pop duo that’s plagued by nightmares. Look out for their new live show at SXSW in March; in the meantime, here’s our premiere of Skelton’s remix and Herbert’s previously shared version…

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