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GHOSTS - World Is Outside
| IndieLondon | GHOSTS embody the spirit of chart-friendly indie. Their songs are impossibly catchy, their sound almost always upbeat and their style evocative of everyone from Coldplay and The Delays through to The Dandy Warhols and Fleetwood Mac.
That’s both a good and a bad thing. On the positive side, it means they’re virtually impossible to dislike. With songs like Stay The Night and title track The World Is Outside they capture a genuinely feel-good vibe and get you singing along, while your feet tap in tandem....full text |
| | NME | | The debut album from Ghosts, the next major label punt at launching the new Coldplay (as opposed to the, er, new Morning Runner), is the kind of record that, should you slip it into the car stereo on your way home from another term at uni, your mum would request you burn her a copy. Yup, there may be less rock'n'roll thrills here than can be found in the average maypole dancing lesson, but the radio-lassoing, Keane-esque tunes saturating 'Stay The Night' and the title track could only be denied by the ear-less. Alas, a few songs later, the quality dissolves quicker than cheap loo roll, meaning that the best chance these lads have got of emulating Keane is amping up a weed habit and making some calls to the Priory....full text |
| | Virgin | | Much has been made of this Surrey four-piece somehow constituting a new Coldplay/Keane hybrid. The truth is that with jangly-jaunty previous single Stay The Night, Ghosts introduced themselves as something more approaching the new Bluetones – if a somewhat more winsome and fragile version. Simon Pettigrew's appealingly reedy vocals and a bouncy, pop insouciance also set the band apart from those more serious, melancholic peers....full text |
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