Ghosts - Stay The Night/ Dark At 4

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1...according to our Phil on Fri 16 Mar, 2007.

Those of you who are doubting the existence of satan can be reassured that he does in fact exist as once again GHOSTS are still chomping at his evil bit. Hugely commercial pop with brash brassy synthetic sounding trumpets. This makes Keane sound cutting edge and that really takes some doing. Total insidious crap pop music. Not my kind of thing. I'd rather listen to someone shaking a bag of spanners around for an hour or 2. Stay The Night is out on far too many formats for it's own good.

TRACKLISTING: 7” A) Don’t Lose Yourself, B) Bright Glittering Gifts (non-album track),
CD 1 Don’t Lose Yourself, 2 Bright Glittering Gifts (non-album track),

OVERVIEW: Listening to Laura Veirs is like looking up into the night sky and suddenly witnessing a meteor shower: there’s something startling and magical, both intimate and awesome, about her songs. The nature-obsessed images Veirs conjures up and the mesmerising sound she creates are as indelible as the blaze of shooting stars. ‘Don’t Lose Yourself’ is the first single from Saltbreakers, her third album release in three years. It is her most beautifully realised band-oriented disc yet. Produced by Tucker Martine (Decemberists, Built To Spill), it is by turns haunting, playful, tender and fierce, embracing everything from machine-driven beats (‘Don’t Lose Yourself’) to angelic gospel choirs (‘To The Country’) to fuzzed-out guitars and driving alt-rock rhythms (‘Phantom Mountain’). The singer-songwriter’s 2005 Nonesuch release, the aptly titled Year of Meteors, transformed Veirs’ experience of relentlessly touring Europe and the States to support her breakthrough 2004 disc Carbon Glacier into a phantasmagorical romantic journey. Andy Gill of the Independent called it ‘An absorbing, brilliant work whose grip tightens with each hearing.’ The NME described it as ‘A collection of songs poised to steal the heart of anyone with a bruised soul.’ And Mark Edwards of the Sunday Times included it in his list of best albums of the year, proclaiming, ‘Veirs’ distinctive, earthy, angular alt-folk just gets better and better’.TRACKLISTING: 7" - A) Stay The Night, B) Dark At 4,
7" - A) Stay the Night (Demo version), B) Mind Games (Olympic Session),
CD - 1 Stay The Night, 2 Hold On,

OVERVIEW: Ghosts release ‘Stay The Night’ on 19th March through Atlantic Records. This is the follow up to ‘Musical Chairs’, their debut ltd edition single. Over the last few months Ghosts have been creating quite a stir. Their debut release Musical Chairs was i-tunes single of the week and picked up some rave reviews including The Guardian Guide’s pick of the week. They were in the Top 10 of the BBC’s Sound Of 2007 poll and have already received plays from Radio One’s Jo Whiley and Zane Lowe. Ghosts first met at school and have been together, in one guise or another, ever since. It is little wonder, then, that the music sounds so self-assured, and so very accomplished - ecstatic melodies, sugar-spun choruses and a precise understanding of pop music and all its infinite nuances. The band have just put the finishing touches to their debut album, set for release in Spring 2007. They have just completed a sell-out 4 week residency at London’s Water Rats and are now touring the UK.

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