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DOWNLOAD: Tracks From Newest Ghostly Artist, Deastro

22-year-old pop prodigy Randolph Chabot (aka Deastro) has been constructing hyper-colored musical fantasies for over a decade, self-releasing more than three albums’ worth of songs, drawing all his own album covers, and playing countless ecstatic, synth-driven live shows in Detroit’s network of DIY venues.

Deastro’s Keepers is one of the most bounce-off-the-walls joyful records we’ve ever laid ears on, full of the sort of candy-colored pop nuggets that get us all smiley and teary-eyed at the same time. Initially available as a loose "best-of" on eMusic, Keepers is out now on Ghostly. Here's "Michael, Lone Archer of the North Shore," the soaring lead-off track from Keepers:

DOWNLOAD: "Michael, Lone Archer of the North Shore", from Keepers

Deastro’s next album, Moondagger, due in 2009. First single “Parallelogram” (and its B-side “Carol Gilligan”) features Chabot fronting a full live band, and takes Deastro’s boundless energy into grander, rocking-er new territory.

DOWNLOAD: "Parallelogram", from the upcoming full length Moondagger

Ghostly also plans to re-release Deastro's dizzyingly eclectic back catalogue – from the all-instrumental Powered concept albums to the sky-high anthems of The Young Planets – in the not-too-distant future.

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