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Review: 'Ghosts of Social Networks'
'Love Potion / Mockingbirds'   

-  Label: 'Integrity Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '6th May 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'INT 054'

Our Rating:
Is it my ears or does everything sound like 1985 again? With a crooning vocal and chiming guitar bathed in a wash of reverb – not to mention a bright, dominant snare sound – ‘Love Potion’ sounds like an amalgamation of Lloyd Cole, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Echo & The Bunnymen. It gets my vote because of this, not in spite of it, and most importantly, it’s a cracking tune.

(Virtual) flipside ‘Mockingbirds’ takes a gloom-laden swipe at celebrity culture. It’s more introspective in execution, taking a turn into dark, gothy territory around the mid-point before blossoming into a surging rush of a tune at the close.

Very much one to file in the ‘promising new band’ pile.


Is it my ears or does everything sound like 1985 again? With a crooning vocal and chiming guitar bathed in a wash of reverb – not to mention a bright, dominant snare sound – ‘Love Potion’ sounds like an amalgamation of Lloyd Cole, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Echo & The Bunnymen. It gets my vote because of this, not in spite of it, and most importantly, it’s a cracking tune.

(Virtual) flipside ‘Mockingbirds’ takes a gloom-laden swipe at celebrity culture. It’s more introspective in execution, taking a turn into dark, gothy territory around the mid-point before blossoming into a surging rush of a tune at the close.

Very much one to file in the ‘promising new band’ pile.


  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Ghosts of Social Networks - Love Potion / Mockingbirds