Cherry Ghosts classic debut Thirst For Romance. When Thirst For Romance (Simon Aldreds debut album as Cherry Ghost) arrived in July 2007, it sounded out of step with so much of its musical surroundings. Simons album came from a different place to everything else – it was a soul record, in so much as it was from the soul, and about the human soul. And it was a proudly Northern record – a fact celebrated in the sound of Simons voice and the people and places that populated his songs. While the music might have evoked glorious vistas and wide open spaces, the view here was very much the post-industrial North.

Tracklist

Thirst For Romance
4 AM
Mountain Bird
People Help the People
Roses
Dead Man’s Suit
Alfred the Great
Here Come the Romans
False Alarm
Mary on the Mend
Mathematics