Valencia // Dancing With A Ghost

$30.00

Valencia // Dancing With A Ghost

$30.00

On October 16, 2020, Valencia’s Dancing With A Ghost will receive the vinyl treatment for the first time with a special Ten Year Anniversary Edition via Know Hope Records.

Originally released on October 12, 2010 by I Surrender Records, Dancing With A Ghost marked a momentous turning point not only in sound, but also in both the personal and professional life of the band.

“Everyone experiences change in one form or another through out life. Whether it’s a self-forced internal change, or the universe throwing you a curve-ball. In the wake of We All Need A Reason To Believe, we all experienced changes in our own ways personally, and as a band. Dancing With A Ghost in its title form, symbolizes those changes and how we experience, learn, and grow from them…’ says vocalist Shane Henderson. ‘They’re songs of fighting yourself like hell on numerous social and personal topics, wanting to be better, and learning the hard lesson of letting it all go. It is that struggle in ourselves I think many of us are determined to figure out, and we attempted to figure out through this album.”

“This album suggests a very mature point in one’s life that I think will be identifiable to most of their fans. Anyone who has navigated through the chaos that is a life changing event and finally found themselves at a point where processing exactly what happened is possible should appreciate this auditory affirmation.” - Eric Dexter, Under The Gun Review

Following the seminal sophomore album, We All Need A Reason To Believe on Columbia Records, the band chose to return I Surrender Records, free of any creative confines, enlist Mark Trombino and Carlos de la Garza to produce, and ultimately craft what would become the most musically diverse and thematically ambitious record of the band’s career.

"We were back on I Surrender Records with our friends Rob, Gaby, and Alex. We felt comfortable and free to make something totally different and not be put into a box," says guitarist Brendan Walter.

Presented in three unique vinyl variants and housed in gatefold packaging, Dancing With A Ghost receives the deluxe presentation it has always demanded. The artwork has been completely re-imagined by guitarist Brendan Walter, and sees the inclusion of an expanded eight-page insert and bonus 7” EP comprised of alternate version tracks. These additional songs, never released before, are taken from the original recording sessions and only available in this first time pressing.

Pressing Information

first pressing: 100 bone w/ orange & black splatter; 200 black inside clear color-in-color; 200 bone, tan, clear tri-color