In early 2010, when Ghost Wave started recording their EP in Sandringham, Auckland, things got off to a bad start. Matt Paul (guitar, vocals) and Eammon Logan (drums) were flatting together and laying down the bones of the recordings. They were using a mix of instruments and a sampler. One day, when they were out, some reprobates broke into their flat, stole their computers and trashed the place. The recordings were lost forever. They had to start from scratch.

But through adversity came something good. During the cold winter of 2010 the band – who by now had added Rikki Sutton (first bass, now guitar) – hunkered down to some serious music listening: Sun Ra, Spaceman 3, Stereolab and all the krautrock kannon. They also settled back into a recording routine: early starts, cold late nights and searching for ways to make the music glow - like a haze of sonic warmth.

The tracks definitely did start to glow. Over the fuzzed out psychedelic throb and front foot Germanic drive emerged a melodic sense that alluded to the missing link between Brit pillars like the Beatles or the Stone Roses.

Milwaukee blog Seizure Chicken give Ghost Wave the thumbs up

"Kiwi fourtet Ghost Wave not only dropped one of our favourite songs this year , Hippy (Gabba Gabba hey…this sounds familiar haha), but have a gnarly lil banger of an eponymous EP on their paws.  This EP was recently rlsd and even more recently made it to our desk. This band is currently working on getting a full release together which should be the whip.