Cherry Ghost: Beneath This Burning Shoreline | CD review

(Heavenly)If Cherry Ghost's first album was – in the words of Ivor Novello-winning leader Simon Aldred – "Willie Nelson meets Walt Disney", the follow-up is more Tindersticks meet Tony Christie. The quintessential brooding romantic, Aldred isn't one for treading lightly: even the most understated moments here, such as acoustic ballad My God Betrays, and a tremulous innocents-abroad number called Barberini Square, have a weightiness that would be pretentious if the music weren't so pretty. Th...

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