Lesser Panda’s “Ghostdance” induces fake musical memory syndrome

Do you ever get that fake memories thing that music has the ability to invoke? You know, you hear a song and you’re suddenly transported to a place you’ve never actually been. Like when you hear an Eagles song and all of a sudden there you are, cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway in the 70s, several years before you were actually born.
I’m banging on about this fake musical memory syndrome because I was struck by it while watching Lesser Panda’s “Ghostdance” video. And not because of the moody lighting, or the scary old man stare you see photographed above.
No, it’s the Joy Division guitar plus the clubby rhythms which arrive around three minutes in that convinced me I was actually in a movie rendering of a 1980s Los Angeles goth club at two in the morning among an army of wannabe Robert Smiths. Quite a shock, it was.

[video: lesserpandamusic]