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HOLIDAY GHOSTS ANNOUNCE NEW LP ‘ABSOLUTE REALITY’ SET FOR RELEASE APRIL 21st (VIA FATCAT RECORDS) + CONFIRM UK TOUR FOR APRIL 2023 LEAD SINGLE “VULTURE” IS OUT NOW
“Falmouth’s finest blend primal garage rock, rock’n’roll, DIY punk, blues and giddy exuberant tunefulness” The Guardian
“Holiday Ghosts’ scrappy, snappy rock & roll feels almost timeless” KEXP
“Rough-hewn jingle-jangle with a heartwarming feel” Clash
“Triumphant and blissful” Gigwise
Brighton-based Falmouth garage rockers Holiday Ghosts are pleased to announce a brand-new album ‘Absolute Reality’, set for release April 21st 2023 via FatCat Records (TRAAMS, Honeyblood, The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks), and also share rollicking lead track ‘Vulture’, out today (January 26th).
Arriving hot on the heels of acclaimed 2022 EP ‘Credit Note’, ‘Absolute Reality’ tackles different themes of social commentary, with fiery lyrics and hard-picked guitars, holding both honest confessions and tall tales, lived stories and movielike landscapes. Bringing the noise and texture that Holiday Ghosts love from New York punk and the new wave era, ‘Vulture’ cements their status within today’s alt-rock scene.
Between their last album ‘North Street Air’, to the present day of ‘Absolute Reality’, Holiday Ghosts have rocked iconic stages throughout the UK & Europe, fromLatitude Festival to Left Of The Dial, from Dot to Dot to ‘Misty Fields’ from the Pyrenees mountains to the chapels of Chester. They’ve shared stages with acts including Black Lips, Bodega and The Bug Club, attracted widespread praise across the press landscape (The Guardian, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, KEXP, DIY, So Young, The Line Of Best Fit, Clash, Gigwise), and clocked-up live sessions/interviews aplenty on BBC 6Musicwith key tastemakers such as Steve Lamacq and Marc Riley.
Speaking ahead of today’s ‘Vulture’single release, Holiday Ghosts’ Samuel Stacpoole revealed: “This song has had two lives. I remember playing it a lot five or six years ago on acoustic guitar as a kind of spaghetti western instrumental. It was half the speed and really atmospherically menacing. I’ve lost interest in musically pretending that I’m in a western movie now. When reimagining this track I’d been obsessively listening to the first The Cure compilation ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ and Young Marble Giants/Weekend. That style of production which has so much emphasis on space really got under my skin”.
Holiday Ghosts have also today confirmed an extensive run of UK shows for April 2023 – dates as follows;
10 April Cambridge Portland Arms
11 April Birmingham Hare & Hounds 2
12 April Birkenhead Future Yard
13 April Manchester YES Basement
14 April Newcastle Cumberland Arms
15 April Glasgow Glad Cafe
16 April Leeds Hyde Park Book Club
18 April Sheffield Delicious Clam
19 April Nottingham JT Soar
20 April Portsmouth Neu Wave @ The Loft
21 April Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
22 April Falmouth Cornish Bank
24 April London Lexington
25 April Bristol Exchange
27 April Margate Elsewhere
18 May Brighton Green Door Store
Tickets for all shows are on-sale now HERE
The band have also confirmed their first summer festival slot at Deer Shed Festival in Thirsk for July 2023.
Holiday Ghosts are; Katja Rackin (vocals, drums), Samuel Stacpoole (vocals, guitar, synth), Benedict Nightingale (guitar, backing vocals), Morgan Lloyd Matthews (bass)
Holiday Ghosts’ new single “Vulture” is out today via FatCat Records – available on all digital platforms HERE
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