Heavy Ghost, the debut album from DM STITH, cast an almost supernatural effect on reviewers and fans when it was released in March of 2009. Both groups acclaimed it as a stunning debut unlike anything else they'd heard. Stith's peers received it well too: Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear twittered about it calling it a "lovely album," and Bat for Lashes picked Heavy Ghost for her New York Times playlist, saying "It traverses all these magical landscapes. The Remixes (remixes by Bibio, Son Lux, Ensemble, Clark and more) helped provide new context and deconstruction of his songs in a way that unearthed the songs' roles and relationships to one another.