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Back in 2020, when I was still going by the name Ghosto, tooling around with MC Are and Brock on, what I consider my opus, “Every Hour”, our whole approach was different - more naive I’d say. None of us are like we were at that time. After Artista came out, we were all in a bad way. We were each other’s miserable comfort and almost never left the company of one another, but we were simultaneously each other’s personal hell. There was this deadline looming over us, SUM wanted another smash hit like “Robot Boogie Bomb” but we were just completely fried, and when we did have energy, it was just anger. Anger everywhere. I couldn’t say silent watching the whole Brobule alter-ego situation. It felt like history was repeating. I realized I had a demon in me.

Flash forward to 2024: I hadn’t spoken to Are or Bierly in 3 years. After daily exorcisms for about 8 months, I made it out the other end, rehabilitated. I had made a decent living making organic skincare products; hadn’t touched a mic since the 2021 sessions. One (fateful) day, I received an email from Brock, talking about a collaboration for a Make-A-Wish thing… with Ricky fucking Lowe?? I dropped everything I was doing and bought a flight to LA, day of. The sound was refreshing—joyous, even. And the recording experience reminded me of the good parts of the bleak years. It gave me faith that things weren’t so broken anymore.

Listening to Coat of Arma in full, it truly sounds like an exorcism. Maybe I’m biased. The textures of earlier tracks like “Krietzecoin”, “Jinx Machine” and “Elmer Lang” give us the demonic realities of possession. Disgusting, but extremely evocative. It’s the kind of viscerality that makes you want to drag your nails across your face just to feel human again. Tracks like “KNEEHIGHS”, “2nites the Nite…2 Feel Rite” and “Your Favorite Artista” are where the angelic energies shine through. The demonic tracks are a sort of psychic assault whereas the angelic cuts reel the audience back in, signaling to the greener pastures that lie on the other side of shit mountain. To those who say this is a halfhearted attempt at putting songs from the YESFEST mix on streaming, I say keep your ears peeled for the narrative; tracks recontextualize themselves, new and old cuts alike, telling a story of deliverance; a story lived by MC, Brock, Ricky, and me.

Enjoy the ride.
Junko FKA Ghosto

From analog bliss to digital psychedelia. Computer music in the real world.

Est 2019

Art design by Caybee Calabash

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