.HolyGhostNYC takes us to the disco on Work, their first album in 6 years
. On June 27, they headline LIFEbeat's NYC Pride Week benefit at the Ace Hotel. Here, Millhiser and Frankel talk aboutBillboard Dance: Tell me how you ended up releasing the new album via West End Records.It came about very easily. We knew we weren't going to do it with DFA. The album was moving along. We wanted to get a jump. It had been so long since we were in a position where we needed to figure out how we're going to release it because we had been at DFA for so long.
[We were considering] the dream label to see a Holy Ghost record on [and came up with] West End. West End is owned by BMG. We had a friend at BMG. We basically asked, ‘what are you guys doing with West End? Would you be interested in perhaps putting out a Holy Ghost! record?’ Basically, right away, they said yes.
We did the single "Anxious," and it was really easy. We really liked working with them there. Obviously, it’s a label and a catalog with an amazing history and one we feel really attached to.Honestly, I think Alex and I can both trace our interest in disco directly back to West End. Much of the earliest music he and I were making, with friends of ours, was working on samplers and making beats. We both got into digging for records at a pretty early age.
[In terms of “Anxious”], it felt like you couldn’t do something on West End without also having some charitable element as well. West End didn't necessarily have an intrinsically charitable element, but the guy who ran it for the longest time, that was such a big part of his life. It's not lost on us that two straight white guys are putting out music on this historically largely gay, largely people of color label. It felt like that had to be a part of it in some way.
It was this music that was part of the LGBTQ movement of the time and is tied to the AIDS crisis. There are a lot of people who made this music who died, sadly, really young. At the same time, a lot of the music was derided for super homophobic and racist reasons.Like so many things, disco, it was co-opted by straight, white people and I think the memory of it is that it's this--
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