Pastel Ghost is the project of an American electronic musician based in California, working in darkwave, witch house, and dream pop since the early 2010s. The ethereal, heavily layered vocals on Abyss (2015) and Ethereality (2017) built a cult following from Bandcamp to TikTok — start with either one. Dig into Pastel Ghost vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Pastel Ghost is the recording project of an American electronic musician based in California. She launched the project in the early 2010s with self-released material via Bandcamp and has built her audience through online distribution and the contemporary darkwave, witch house, and dream pop scenes alongside contemporaries like Crystal Castles, Salem, and HEALTH. Her work has been associated with atmospheric darkwave aesthetics and TikTok virality in the early 2020s (use of her tracks in goth, dark academia, and aesthetic content).
Pastel Ghost's sound combines darkwave, witch house, dream pop, ethereal wave, synth-pop, ambient, and gothic with her distinctive ethereal vocal delivery (use of vocal layering and processing), atmospheric synthesizer-driven production, and arrangements drawing on classic 1980s darkwave and synth-pop alongside contemporary witch house influences.
Cleopatra Records and self-released pressings of the Pastel Ghost catalog have been issued in color variant editions, with collector demand in darkwave and witch house communities.
Listeners new to Pastel Ghost typically start with Abyss (2015) or Ethereality (2017).
