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Yer Boots by Ghost Carriage Phantoms

Tom Jenkins | Friday 9 November, 2012 14:01

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For Prince, author of The Bangles’ mega-hit Manic Monday, Sunday was his fun-day. He is now, however, a Jehovah’s Witness and Sunday is no longer a time for messin’. Well here at Snipe – and beware, this link is award-winningly tenuous – Friday is our fun-day. Thus, today’s MPFree is a really cool little track from Ghost Carriage Phantoms, aka Merthyr Tydfil born songwriter Michael James Hall and producer Mark Estall. This is pure bedroom pop with a satisfying Casio keyboard line running through it like the name of a seaside town through a stick of rock. Debut album The Boy Lives – out now on Marketstall Records – draws predictable but accurate comparisons with the likes of Euros Childs and Gruff Rhys, though Hall does slip in touches of Perfume Genius and Badly Drawn Boy.

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