Ghosts: “Stay The Night”
“Trains To Brazil”, anyone? No seriously, Ghosts take the template established by those lovable Guillemots on the best song of last year - bouncy melody, soaring vocals, roaring brass sections… shit, it even begins with a nearly identical opening lyric - and feeds it through the mainstream pop machine. The result is “Stay The Night”, the first single from London pop quartet Ghosts, and well, it’s nothing all that original and there’s not even the slightest modicum of academic merit here. That said, you really deserve a medal if you can keep your toes from tapping during this track, and - just like “Trains” before it - it’s just the thing to usher in the carefree whimsy of spring with.
MP3: “Stay The Night” - Ghosts
…And speaking of mainstream-as-shit Britpop acts, here’s the new single from Air Traffic, whom Ghosts are supporting at present on their current UK tour. “Charlotte” has actually already seen release as the B-side to the band’s initial “Just Abuse Me” 7″, but now it’s ready to step into the spotlight in all its A-side glory, with a shiny new production job and some brand new clothes to help it get the job done.
MP3: “Charlotte” - Air Traffic
March 25th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Air Traffic are really promising. I bought their 7″ last year despite not having a turntable anymore. Yeah, I should have thought that one through a bit.
March 25th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
What about the B-Side on the CDS for Stay The Night?
“Hold On”’s a quite good song, still the comparison you make with Guillemots is certain!!
March 25th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Definitely dig the Ghosts track, even if it is really Guillemots-esque. Air Traffic…not sooo bad, but not so great either.
March 25th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
the air traffic demo ’shooting star’ that u posted a while back has been getting alot of play by me atm, omgosh, im in love with that song. and i love alot of other stuff by them too, whoopwhoop.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:11 am
what a ripoff!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Ghosts is far superiot to Guillemots, and the b-side “Hold On” is amazing. The Twang “Wide Awake” (and it’s b-side “Aimless…”) are great too.
April 10th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Wow, they better stick a couple paragraphs in the liner notes thanking Guillemots for permitting them to steal “Trains”. The opening lyric is practically right out of “Trains”, however Ghosts was polite enough to replace 1 o’clock with 4 o’clock.