Even when he was a member of the Deadly Snakes, Chad Ross had been forging his own musical path. First known as Ghoststory, Ross has now pressed the moniker of Nordic Nomadic into service. Tellingly, both names serve as a pretty decent description of this self-titled album: a skeletal mixture of haunted folk and barren, windswept songcraft. The only remaining traces of his garage rock past can be found in his love of warm, authentic tones. An autumnal beauty and slight sense of foreboding bathes these songs in an unassuming but poignant light. A sweet treat to cap a great year for Toronto tunes.