yes, smaller. more managable?

Japan - Ghosts

One of my favorite tunes on Jess Harvell's nowthatswhaticallnewpop list, "Ghosts" starts out with some late-70s horror flick cheese-synth, but Dave Sylvian's voice rescues it all -- like Scott Walker on "The Electrician"-- quivering over the emergence of a tune that's little more than a purposefully unsettling mess. It reminds me of the melancholic, can-hardly-get-started theatrics of songs like "Holocaust," but reinterpreted by an Atari with a voice like the Antony of yesteryear.