The Black Ghosts – The Black Ghosts

• 16th Jul 2008

The eponymous debut by the Black Ghosts forges a 2 man partnership into an electro/live box of tricks compromising silver-smooth female vocals dotted across a Soul II Soul landscape.

Their sound if melliflous and driven whilst ‘any way you choose to give’ crashes italiano naggingly into your cranium.

‘It’s your touch’ is coffee table-lite but ‘Repitition kills you’ is a bitter and harder pill that raises the expectation levels to a higher level.

‘Until it comes again’ is focussed round a juddering keyboard riff whilst ‘I want nothing’ spits bile across a more techno hard house sound.

‘Full moon’ steps off the accelarator and puts you into cruise control – it’s a a state of hedonism striving to find it’s own utopia.

‘I dont know’ is pure bubblegum pop that basement jaxx are simply gagging to own.

The two tracks that precede closing track ‘face’ tail off but the album closer delivers on all fronts with it’s own brand of soul jazz patched together with a clang of beats and guitar.

Overall it’s a an ok album with some patchy moments punctuated with some strong highlights.