PURE CONJECTURE, THE - No Ghosts (LP+mp3) (Sealed) (LP)

LP with DL. Third album from the geographically scattered collective, The Pure Conjecture is the sound of friendship. When the world around collapses, friendship remains that hopeful constant and No Ghosts is the sound of that constant. To eschew the virtues of the individual band members is to forgo a long, deep involvement and affiliation with a number of immense bands. Marc Beatty (Brakes), Joel Gibson (The Tenderfoot) Rose Elinor Dougall, Johny Lamb (Thirty Pounds of Bone) and Matthew Twaites (Electric Soft Parade) are brought together around the writing efforts of front-men Matt Eaton and Darren Moon and within an industry of tempestuous greed and merciless careerism a calm naturally emerges. Gathering across several London writing and recording sessions in 2016, the band kicked out the jams and found a series of songs that rested in the warmth of Teenage Fanclub and Big Star, sparkled with the hairspray of Hall & Oates and tipped a collegiate Nineties cap to the R&B Heroes of the day (Boyz II Men, Blackstreet). "This is sophisticated, soulful night music in which lush production and bandleader Matt Eaton's measured croon evoke everyone from The Zombies to Curtis Mayfield to Teenage Fanclub." - The Skinny //