Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Song(s) of the Day # 1,354 Holiday Ghosts


X marks the spot. Holiday Ghosts, surely the finest band ever to come roaring out of Falmouth, Cornwall, know where the treasure is buried. With the release of their eponymous twelve track debut, just out, they're here to give you the map. Discover them now before the hip kids cotton on. They only have five hundred Facebook likes as we speak.


This state of affairs is sure not to last as they're one pearl of a band. Holiday Ghosts has more than its share of rough edges but this is all part of its charm. They've got a record collection and they know how to use it. Displaying a shambling, happy guile, that sets off, (as so much wonderful guitar music does), from the template that the Velvet Underground laid down between the release of their third album and Loaded. They also take in Sixties Garage, The Modern Lovers, much of the C-86 scene, The Marine Girls and The Popguns. Then they add a sprinkle of their own personal concerns, inspirations and eccentricities, a dash of 2017 joie de vivre, get the motor running and we're off, finding ourselves breaking away from the pack and arriving at the finishing line breasting the tape before we know it.


Holiday Ghosts will keep me happy and chugging along for the remaining months of 2017 and surely well into 2018 too. It will be interesting to see how they develop and whether they reach the broader audience they so richly deserve to  be embraced by. It's nice being slightly ahead of the curve and chance upon a little known band before all and sundry are wearing their t-shirt. But in this case I'm so enthused that I want to share in a big way. Go on, treat yourself. Make Holiday Ghosts your latest discovery!





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