Joe Bailey, “Waiting” from ‘Ghosts’ (2021): One Track Mind

I became aware of U.K.-based prog-rocker Joe Bailey through the band Dark Monarchy, his hard-hitting collaboration with Mark Anthony K.

Soon enough, I explored Bailey’s entire five-album catalog via his Bandcamp page and was equally impressed. Bailey recently dropped the single, “Waiting” as a preview of his new Reficul Records release, Ghosts.

With its spellbinding synthesizer intro and Bailey’s haunting lead vocals sounds, “Waiting” sets a scene that is memorizing but in contrast the mid-song tempo shift, which is accompanied by surging electric guitars.

The song spews forth, with a double bass drum-powered rhythm and a Dream Theater-like chorus. “Waiting” seems to touch on the current devolution of our world, building in intensity while creating a curiosity around the major themes held in Ghosts.

The new album drops today (May 14, 2021), with “Waiting” as an excellent opening salvo.

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Preston Frazier

Preston Frazier is a bass-playing lawyer living in Atlanta. He is the author of 'Toto: The Band, Not the Dog,' a look at his favorite band. Frazier hosts the music-focused Slang of Ages Podcast and regularly writes about his favorite music on slangofages.com. He can be reached at [email protected]; follow him on Twitter: @slangofages.

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