Unpeeled Review
I reckon that they've got a few Doors albums in their collection and, weirdly, some Split Enz (as opposed to Crowded House) stuff as well. This is because they're every bit as edgy & sweet, check out the sinister beauty of "Indigo Solar" if you doubt a raddled ole hack. Of course they rock, I mean, they opened with the cheery "Too Many Dead" that swaggers along on some fat keyboards and fatter riffs in a cool Green On Red style and "Appointment In Samarra" has a bludgeoning bass and more Jim Morrison style vox posturing to duel with a lovely ropey guitar. This is good stuff and none gooder than "Dancing In Dude Town", a low key snare and drawl around a fantastic piano and equally fine guitar. Now get on to www.visitingghosts.com and we'll get on the phone and try to book them for a show. www.glasswerk.co.uk Review
The music is easy, sweet and pure, perhaps this is the result of them recording it all in real time, as opposed to layering track by track. Whatever the tricks of the trade, it has worked. The second track on the album, “Dalleray”, is a specific winner, providing a happy melody over layed by soft freely flowing lyrics. It could happily accompany a lazy day in the summer park sun, But the funny thing is, this last point is reasonably ironic as they like to be linked with the melancholic Leonard Cohen and emotionally taut PJ Harvey. But as every creative knows, it is the treacherous anguish and pain of life that so often that provides the beauty and the love. The album picks up a little with “Appointment in Samarra”, a darker trip into the musical minds of this one half antipodean group. It has soul and belly and has every capacity to take you to the underside if you so dare to go. They are a refreshing change from the likes of Keane and Snow Patrol to the inundated masses of garage rock bands about at the moment.