Considering the many productive years ahead of him as an artist, we won’t quite call Ghost in the Western Trap Matt Geary’s magnum opus, but it very well might end up reaching that height when his career is all said and done. Today is your first listen to the album, seven songs that skillfully intertwine post-hardcore musicality with orchestral minimalism. It aligns with Geary’s expansive approach to music, which he has been developing and reinventing over the last decade. With complex ideas and a highly experimental approach, he effortlessly contrasts the light and the dark, experimenting along the way and delivering vast and ambient soundscapes. Describing the album, Geary calls it “A commentary without words.” Expanding upon this point, he says: “I like people to find their own meaning ...