Florida’s Tyler Costolo has been making music under the moniker Two Meters since 2018, starting with a self-titled EP on Very Jazzed. The release achieved “what at first appears a paradoxical hybrid,” we wrote of Two Meters, “blending the sincere intimacy of bedroom pop with the urgent weight of ambient into what are either condensed epics or impossibly rich snapshots.” Later came The Blue Jay EP, and with it a turn towards a heavier sound that drew on post-rock, before the passage into the dark was fully realised on 2019’s single ‘The Nightmare // Bike Ride‘—the “heaviest and bleakest Two Meters song[s] to date.”
Though Costolo is pushing the Two Meters sound increasingly into metal territory, he wanted to preserve a space to continue a more restrained, emo-inflected bedroom style. Hence Ghost Fan Club, a brand new project that will serve as an outlet for the softer side of things.
If you were wondering about the choice of name, then introductory single ‘Passing Through’ gives a good indication. With a soft and cautious style, the track tiptoes forward with something between bummed out slacker stillness and a kind of weighted trepidation, as sad and scared and bored as any spirit unable to pass on. But the ghost here is still very much living, the life slipping past before his eyes very much his own. The goal is not the bright afterlife but a far duller paradise—a sense of contentment, comfort in one’s own skin. The feeling that, yes, you really are living, right here and right now.
Another morning
6 am just falling asleep
Birds outside remind me
Of what I’ve always known
I’m not living I’m just passing throughLosing days faster now
Will time ever slow down