Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost

Think you've got the Zero 7 sound pegged? The duo - Mercury Music Prize and Grammy-nominated Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker - really have pushed the boundaries to breaking point.

While they've been known and loved as the godfathers of exquisite ambient and downbeat pop for the best part of a decade, their latest album Yeah Ghost is like nothing you've heard by them before.

With the tempo ratcheted right up, Yeah Ghost's battery of new ideas is set to jolt the world out of the reverie they've held it in thus far. Spanning everything from dance pop to acoustic folk and everything in between it's an idea-splattered work of genius that even includes a quartet of instrumental tracks derived from their experimental side projects (Kling/Ingrid Eto) and sampled, overdubbed and rebuilt from scratch.

From the evocative intro Count Me Out to the album's shuffling, twitchy closer All Of Us - via the haunting Solastalgia and Ghost sYMbOL avant-garde electronic and distorted vocals - it's Zero 7 as you've never heard them before. Destin this aint. One thing that remains consistent though is the roll call of up-and-coming talent on vocal duties, including singer Eska Mtungwazi. The Londoner, whose collaboration credits include Matthew Herbert and Bugs In The Attic, appears on Mr McGee, Medicine Man, Sleeper and The Road.
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