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Tracklist
1. Sixteen Hours
2. Chicago is Burning
3. Turnstyles
4. Asa Phelps is Dead
5. All the Week
6. The Old Timer's 2x4
7. Here Comes the Neighborhood
8. Light Breathing (Me and Martha Plimpton in a Fancy Elevator)
9. Ghost Stories
10. 106 South
11. Minute
12. The Last One

Ghost Stories came out less than half-a-year after the Lawrence Arms' debut, A Guided Tour of Chicago, but it's a top-to-bottom improvement over their monochromatic first album. It's not a return to singer/songwriters Brendan Kelly and Christopher "McCooch" McCaughan's earlier band, the Broadways, in terms of that group's pop-punk sound, but that group's attention to melodic detail, which had been largely absent from A Guided Tour of Chicago, returns in full here, making it a much more varied and interesting listen. Also, McMaughan steps up to the vocal mic a bit more often than before, further enriching the sound. Finally, the songwriting is simply much better this time out, with brief little post-hardcore gems like "Sixteen Hours" and the jangly, hypnotic "Minute" offsetting more expansive songs like the comic, star-struck story "Light Breathing (Me and Martha Plimpton in a Fancy Elevator)." Even better efforts were forthcoming, but Ghost Stories was a most encouraging improvement. Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

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