Ghost Funk Orchestra (GFO) returns to our orbit with Yours in The Ranks of Death, their most grounded and personal collection of songs to date. Reflective and ethereal, the fifth full-length album from Ghost Funk Orchestra finds composer/mastermind Seth Applebaum paring down the sounds and conceptual underpinnings — providing his signature grooves a cleaner pocket to glide across the turntable. Like a summer sun's rays slowly atomizing morning fog, what comes into sharper relief are the angles and crystalline figures that have made Ghost Funk Orchestra the groovy modern psychedelic soul jazz boogaloo backbone of Karma Chief Records since joining the label in 2018.

You would be hard-pressed to find introspection this propulsive, poetic, or funky.