Product Description

'Thirst For Romance' is the debut album from Cherry Ghost. A beautifully poised collection of slowburning anthems, thisis what Coldplay would sound like if they'd have spent their formative years listening to Ryan Adams and Sparklehorse. Includes the singles 'People Help The People' and 'Mathematics'.

Track Listing

1. Thirst For Romance
2. 4am
3. Mountain Bird
4. People Help The People
5. Roses
6. Dead Man's Suit
7. False Alarm
8. Alfred The Great
9. Here Come The Romans
10. Mary On The Mend
11. Mathematics

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2609 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-09
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Cherry Ghost-–a.k.a vocalist/frontman Simon Aldred plus band-–formed in Bolton in 2005, having taken their name from a favourite Wilco song. Following charismatic singles like "Mathematics," and the melancholic "People Help People," Cherry Ghost are now ready to unleash Thirst for Romance--an album Aldred has described as "Willie Nelson meets Walt Disney". What this curious description amounts to is an accomplished collection of warm, accessible songs that veer between alt country and indie rock, providing suitable frames for Aldred’s sandpapery vocals and obscure lyricism. Cherry Ghost’s influences seem fairly overt: you can hear wafts of Lambchop, Oasis, Badly Drawn Boy--and Willie Nelson--amongst the varied structures. The inaugural title track sets things off at a brisk canter, paving the way for a set that’s diverse without breaking too much ground. The merry "4AM" is an obvious gem, as is the anthem-in-waiting "Mountain Bird"; these simple, affecting songs are contrasted by more ambitious material like "Roses", the string-laden "False Alarm" and the Beatles-style blues-rocker "Here Come the Romans." While Aldred isn’t quite the poet he believes himself to be, he does produce some captivating lyrical images, and his band perform impeccably throughout. Not a hugely innovative album, but an engaging debut nonetheless. --Paul Sullivan

Customer Reviews

Beautiful
Well there is only so much one can say about this band.

As their debut album this is truely extordinary. Their songs are mainly meloncholy and offer a biter sweet reflection on love and life.

The lyrics, though they don't always make perfect sense are chilling and beautiful. The lyrics are suported by sweet and simple melodic lines on the whole. Simon Aldred has a good voice and it is perfect for the slower and more questioning songs such as "People help the People" However his voice also adapts for the more up-beat melodies and fun songs such as "Alfred the Great".

This album is great becuase it is perfect for relaxing with after a long day because of the beautiful melodies and simple instrumentation. However there is so much more to it. The infusion of musical simplisity has made this an induvidual album and I can not wait to see where Cherry ghost go next with their music.

Outstanding.
One of the best albums of the last ten years. It took a while to grow on me, and it's true that its style is a bit more "dinner party" than Editors, it's a bit more "Radio 2" than Franz Ferdinand, but the quality is astounding; simply no bad tracks and no lack of great ones. Highly recommended.

Great debut!
Inspired by artists such as Sparklehorse, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash and reminiscent of recent indie standouts Starsailor and Elbow, albeit much cheerier, this, the debut album by Bolton's Cherry Ghost, is surprisingly good and delivers at a far more accomplished level than could ever have been expected. When you take into consideration the fact that band leader and songwriter Simon Aldred was the tender age of 31 when this album was released, the fact that this album is so well written and crafted probably shouldn't be such a shock. Even though Cherry Ghost only formed in 2005, success for Simon has been a long time coming, rather like artists such as KT Tunstall and Badly Drawn Boy who only got albums released later on in their lives than many aspiring musicians.

Simply put, this is a modestly great album - an inspiring, satisfying, excellently written, performed and produced album with an overwhelmingly touching sense of sensitive romanticism. It features many touches of brilliance and, although doesn't have a track on the album you could call exceptional or a modern classic, what this album provides is high quality, enjoyable song after high quality, enjoyable song which really is no easy accomplishment. It is, therefore, difficult to pick out tracks which shine above the rest as the entire album really is extremely good. My personal favourites are Dead Man's Suit and Mary On The Mend, with the rest of the album very close behind. It's not often that you come across an album that has no real moments of weakness, but Thirst For Romance is such a creature. Very lovely stuff, indeed.