Video Club: Ghosts

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

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The new Ghosts single, "The World Is Outside". I like this a lot. U2-esque anthemic guitar pop (maybe a bit of Keane in there too?). I particularly love the bridge between the verse and chorus - gives the song just the extra kick it needs. This hasn't troubled the singles chart so far on download sales, but I have fingers crossed it might do something this week on its full release. (Their last single, "Stay the Night" was great too, but that only scraped into the lower reaches of the Top 40 despite a fair bit of radio play.)

The audio quality on this YouTube clip is not great - too quiet! But it's the only clip of the official video I can find.

If you hate the song you can have fun hoping that one of the heavy falling objects will eventually land on the band.

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I liked this okay, but the vocals (actually maybe the song overall) lacked a bit of power or keening edge or something.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Agree on the vocals. But I think the rest does sound quite powerful blasting out of the radio (cf. the discussion the other day about modern compression/mastering for radio and for CD). But as I said above, the lo-fi YouTube audio doesn't do the track justice.

All that said, Ghosts are definitely "safe" soft rock IMO. They write good songs tho'.