[Cover photo credit to G-Knee Photo]

Omaha Post-Rock band Leafblower have released new single “Ghosts” via Max Trax Records. Taken from their latest album, Burn Cruise, which was released in June 2025, the song had “an appropriately ominous origin.” 

Vocalist/guitarist Danny Maxwell says:

The lyrics for the song were written in the wee hours of the night. I couldn’t sleep, so I got up and watched some TV. I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye, then I felt a warming presence near me, though I didn’t feel threatened.

He adds:

My first thought was ‘What’s all the fuss about?’ My second was to scribble it all down. I came back to that thought later and was able to bridge it with another lyric about feeling bottled up with scattered thoughts and emotions until it all comes to a head for the second half of the song.

The song is accompanied by a surreal video starring their aged octogenarian mascot “Tim” who had been a presence on their social media presence, “going about his every day activities, like delivering babies, jumping in puddles, taking the aforementioned baby on errands, fastened in a BabyBjörn, and, in a rather meta sequence, using a leafblower.”

Instead of letting Tim’s memory languish in the annals of social media archives, they mined their old vids and used excerpts for the “Ghosts” video.

Danny Maxwell says:

Tim is our mascot. We had a run of 200+ consecutive posts on Instagram and Facebook featuring these little 7-second skits of Tim doing anything from everyday activities like skating, preparing meals, and landscaping duties to extraordinary moments like doing the wave at an empty ballpark and lying still enough to feed a wild fox a chicken leg.