Comet Gain return with their seventh album Paperback Ghosts, their first since 2011′s critically acclaimed Howl of The Lonely Crowd.
Recorded at Soup Studios with producer Simon Trought at the helm, and
inspired by the psycho-geography of walks in North London woods and in
the forgotten grey hinterland of the city’s back streets, Paperback
Ghosts comes soaked in autumn melancholy. Tender-hearted but not
miserable, defiant but not angry, it maintains the delicate balance that
has always been Comet Gain’s strength.
The album is about ghosts: the half-forgotten spectres of lost loves;
the people who live inside their own sepia-tinted memories; the mystical
phantom presence of previous owners retained by used books, the paperbacks haunted by old fingerprints.
Blending psychedelia, folk-rock, garage muscle and 4am sadness, the
songs draw on the esoteric that lies behind the ordinary.
