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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012An exquisite, unexpected gem. [Jun 2012, p.102]
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May 7, 2012The Ghost in the Daylight (Warp) is a quieter, more overtly folky album than 2007's Western Lands. There is no obvious focal point - nothing like gorgeous, pick-clawed "Trust" from the previous album - only a series of acoustic songs that flare gently from rueful nostalgia to sudden melancholy.
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May 2, 2012His best work since 'Black Holes In The Sand'.
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May 2, 2012It's Talbot's most intimate collection of songs yet; even if The Western Lands was more overtly ambitious, this may be the best gateway into Gravenhurst's world--and it was well worth the wait.
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Apr 30, 2012These are still audio waters containing complex depths worth diving into, revisiting, pondering over, dwelling over, dwelling in.
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Apr 30, 2012Gravenhurst's most solid and unsettling work to date.
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Apr 30, 2012Bristol 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.
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May 17, 2012Talbot's a great craftsman--half a spin of Ghost proves that--but he's at his most compelling when he's sketching in the margins.
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UncutMay 2, 2012Talbot treads lightly, and a melancholy beauty predominates. [Jun 2012, p.73]
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May 1, 2012As a once-in-a-half-decade demonstration of Talbot's vital signs, The Ghost isn't necessarily compelling enough to make you want to hang around for a follow-up, but the vitriol of a line like, "If you let them burn books, you'll let them burn bodies," is a strong sign of life at least.
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MojoJul 18, 2012The Ghost In Daylight is a memory-haunted journey through the dead voices and deep narratives of Englands lost; broadside ballads culled from earth and sea. [Jun 2012, p.87]
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Under The RadarJul 9, 2012These tunes blur together into a woozy, vertiginous haze. [Jun 2012, p.158]
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MagnetMay 24, 2012The Ghost in the Daylight is a thing of great beauty... [yet] sounds dull - perfect, of course, with every note in the right place, but perfectly predictable too, with 10 songs that blend into one long, brooding whole. [No.87 p.55]
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Apr 30, 2012Much of this record plays like a tribute to '90s miserabilists Red House Painters, all phantom-like reverb over misleadingly comforting folk tropes.
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May 2, 2012The Ghost in Daylight is ignorable background music and the lowest point of the Gravenhurst discography thus far.
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