Gravenhurst: The Ghost in Daylight – review

(Warp)Bristol songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nick Talbot's fourth album for Warp is a gorgeously hallucinatory affair, marking a slight shift towards late-80s/early-90s psychedelia. The Ghost … occasionally conjures up the Stone Roses's gentler moments, the hymnal sections of Spacemen 3's Playing With Fire and the Church's hazy masterpiece, Priest = Aura. And yet, for all the melancholy beauty, there's an atmosphere of quiet disturbance which makes it chime eerily with our times. The sen...

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