Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
There’s a fire escape outside of one of the dressing rooms at Seattle’s historic Paramount Theater where after a show many of us would crawl through the window to get some fresh air, smoke some cigarettes and watch as the audience filed out of the doors below. Those moments felt like exclamation points after a passage from an ecstatic poem. You never fully know the shape of the story until, to your surprise, it’s planted its image firmly in the rearview mirror. From that point on it’s just fragments of magic, joy, hope, pain, love and loss and you’re lucky if you can hang on to a little piece of it. This is a love song to those early days, re-imagined here in stark instrumentation. Hopefully it carries with it some of that old feeling you can never seem to find, but keep searching for nonetheless.
“Fire Escape” (Ghost No. 4) out everywhere now TheHeadAndTheHeart.lnk.to/GhostsInTheMachinery
On February 6th, we’ll be bringing our Seattle Symphony show to you wherever you are with a special livestream via Veeps, celebrating the 15th anniversary of our debut record and revisiting those songs in a whole new way. Tickets are on sale now https://veeps.events/theheadandtheheart
Ghosts in the Machinery will be available across all streaming platforms on 2/27 + limited copies are still available on vinyl rsdmrkt.com/upc/602478714269
- Matty
There’s a fire escape outside of one of the dressing rooms at Seattle’s historic Paramount Theater where after a show many of us would crawl through the window to get some fresh air, smoke some cigarettes and watch as the audience filed out of the doors below. Those moments felt like exclamation points after a passage from an ecstatic poem. You never fully know the shape of the story until, to your surprise, it’s planted its image firmly in the rearview mirror. From that point on it’s just fragments of magic, joy, hope, pain, love and loss and you’re lucky if you can hang on to a little piece of it. This is a love song to those early days, re-imagined here in stark instrumentation. Hopefully it carries with it some of that old feeling you can never seem to find, but keep searching for nonetheless.
“Fire Escape” (Ghost No. 4) out everywhere now TheHeadAndTheHeart.lnk.to/GhostsInTheMachinery
On February 6th, we’ll be bringing our Seattle Symphony show to you wherever you are with a special livestream via Veeps, celebrating the 15th anniversary of our debut record and revisiting those songs in a whole new way. Tickets are on sale now https://veeps.events/theheadandtheheart
Ghosts in the Machinery will be available across all streaming platforms on 2/27 + limited copies are still available on vinyl rsdmrkt.com/upc/602478714269
- Matty
