Turkish drone-pop creator Ekin Üzeltüzenci’s latest solo album is a melancholic affair channeling personal anguish into deeply sad arrangements where organic guitar and piano sounds meld with synthetic atmospheres and slow, dream-pop vocal hums. Wind tones frequently wash over the top for added texture. The result is an introspective sonic expression of misery that’s at times quite powerful, at other points bordering slightly on the self-indulgent.

Highlights include the extremely filmic and deceptively simple “Episodes”, with its glass melodic notes and windy atmosphere, and “Final Cut” which has a similar make-up but more piano driven. It’s a strong formula that goes unbroken across the forty-minute release.

Tracks like “Like A Child” and “Before A Full Moon” have a strong ballad heart to them, but it gets washed away by production that sometimes seems wilfully muddy, designed to make the individual stems less distinct as though lacking in confidence somehow.

“Ghosts Inside” sits somewhere between two stools- dark and inaccessible in some ways, yet not allowed to explore its full potential for longer or deeper experimentation. It’s one of those releases that actually feels too consistent. As such it feels almost like a gateway listen for people not yet adjusted to full-on ethereal soundscapes.