YOUTH

Sounding like it was composed in the sparse, brain-wave-slowing dream space between slumber and consciousness, Simian Ghost’s sophomore collection is a varicoloured assemblage of sugar-kissed guitar tones, virginal vocals and immaculate arpeggios. While the guitar-pop is accessible and affecting, it takes on an otherworldly quality. With painkiller properties the songs balm your woes, like an aspirin dissolving away to nothing in a luxury substance. Hypnotised and sedate, songs tumble through a warm front to become extraordinary in their beauty. Everything Simian Ghost do has a translucent quality, a lightness of touch, that belies the fact that there are indeed rock guitars, bass and drums being played here. Highly polished, studio-perfect never-never pop.