In the Hurricane Bells track “This Year”, Steve Schiltz sings, “I’d get swept away, end up in some other place. When the current changed, I’d just get swept away.” Schiltz captures this image with his music, an effortless composition of slide guitars and moody vocals that carries listeners through drifting seas – rolling through changing tides as natural as sleeping sailors. His debut album as Hurricane Bells, Tonight Is the Ghost, invokes moonlit oceans with a voice that is deep and confident like a floating vessel, drums that pull like subtle midnight waves, and steel guitars guiding the melody like stars. Schiltz wrote and recorded each song by himself – independently tracking everything from the layered vocals to the brushed beats – and has masterfully crafted music as strong as sirens and as distantly adventurous as forgotten docks and foggy lighthouses. It’s a solo effort that will surely collect wind fast and finally bring Schiltz some overdo credit. Let yourself get swept away this Friday at TT the Bear’s at 9PM.