"so don't you try holding me down"
Upon my first listen of "Off Grid" by Brighton UK based (via Falmouth) Holiday Ghosts with it's strident guitar thrust jangle pop push, floating beach carnival-esque synths, classic rock sort of Townsend downbeats and sing-songy group vox I thought of a lot of things and artists. Oddly, I thought of an amalgam of early Smashing Pumpkins and Sparks (while sober mind you) and I thought of the beautifully odd youthful divergent 90's college radio tones of bands like Miracle Legion / Polaris and tangentially the kids show, "The Adventures of Pete and Pete". Maybe it is the sort of free form sound that Holiday Ghosts create that is full of youthful stuff and the askew look at things. Offsetting the sound that embraces the pain and joy of youth, the band comprised of drummer Katja Rackin and guitarist Sam Stacpoole stuff heavy themes in between the lines.
"Off Grid" is as Sam shares "is made up of snap shots of city life, and of being alone with summer moods and feelings that makes it hard to go back to regular life. The music shares that same kind of excitement and fast paced feeling and flits between real every-day routines and imagined reactions to them."
Holiday Ghosts signed with FatCat Records and "Off Grid" is from their upcoming third album "North Street Air" due to drop on May 21.
"Themes of breaking out of moulds and expectations whilst addressing displacement, disillusionment, and living in the midst of heavy advertising and commercial landscapes, spider their way through the new record."
12 songs of love, hate and everything in between.
Continuing about the album Katja Rackin says: "North Street is the busiest and most polluted feeling street in Brighton, and for 6 months that’s where we lived. Having the city center at your doorstep provides so many bizarre experiences and scenarios, so many weird and interesting people, continuous noise, and crowds."
-Robb Donker Curtius
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UK South coasters, relocating from West to East: Katja Rackin and Sam Stacpoole have been grafting and honing alone, away from the expertise of music producers and other governors since 2016. The result is unadulterated and unclean, unabashed and uncompromised. Through their love of artists such as The Kinks, Alex Chilton and The Nerves or any other artist who spends less time with the polishing cloth and more time with the power shower, Holiday Ghosts make music with a lean and primitive rock n roll spirit. Drums are stripped naked to the point of metronome status and no stomp boxes, nor cahons or didgeridoos could obscure the energy of guitars at their rawest.
In stories of landlords, steady jobs, wrong turns, short straws, sunny moods and city life, Kat and Sam share lead vocals alongside returning band-mate and song writer, Charlie Murphy, and a host of other musicians from Falmouth, Cornwall where the band began. Two albums in with Punk Slime Records and a casually bandcamped EP, Holiday Ghosts are back with their 3rd full length - North Street Air on FatCat Records (May 2021) - 12 songs of love, hate and everything in between.
Holiday Ghosts, indie rock, proto punk, cross generational blend, anti-pop, Brighton based, UK, "Off Grid", Katja Rackin and guitarist Sam Stacpoole
Continuing about the album Katja Rackin says: "North Street is the busiest and most polluted feeling street in Brighton, and for 6 months that’s where we lived. Having the city center at your doorstep provides so many bizarre experiences and scenarios, so many weird and interesting people, continuous noise, and crowds."
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://www.facebook.com/holidayghostsfalmouth/
https://www.instagram.com/holidayghosts/
UK South coasters, relocating from West to East: Katja Rackin and Sam Stacpoole have been grafting and honing alone, away from the expertise of music producers and other governors since 2016. The result is unadulterated and unclean, unabashed and uncompromised. Through their love of artists such as The Kinks, Alex Chilton and The Nerves or any other artist who spends less time with the polishing cloth and more time with the power shower, Holiday Ghosts make music with a lean and primitive rock n roll spirit. Drums are stripped naked to the point of metronome status and no stomp boxes, nor cahons or didgeridoos could obscure the energy of guitars at their rawest.
In stories of landlords, steady jobs, wrong turns, short straws, sunny moods and city life, Kat and Sam share lead vocals alongside returning band-mate and song writer, Charlie Murphy, and a host of other musicians from Falmouth, Cornwall where the band began. Two albums in with Punk Slime Records and a casually bandcamped EP, Holiday Ghosts are back with their 3rd full length - North Street Air on FatCat Records (May 2021) - 12 songs of love, hate and everything in between.
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