Simon's Ghost   "A City Under The Stars"
from the album 'A Sea of Stars' (Archaean Records)
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"A City Under The Stars" is taken from the Album "A Sea of Stars" The video is interspersed with images from HG Wells "Things To Come"

After listening to Factory Records, new wave music and Sarah Records, Chris Smillie bought his first Casiotone - an MT45, which was dated even then - and set about playing with no musical tuition. All the songs from the first album, 'A Sea of Stars' were written on that ancient little keyboard with its' 8 drum patterns and its' 8 tones with that cheap distorted guitar on an outmoded 4-track. The music swoons and crashes, reminiscent of, say, Pulp, Scott Walker or the Trembling Blue Stars. There are comparisons with lo-fi bands such as The Decemberists, Band of Holy Joy, Tindersticks or Casiotone For The Painfully Alone but there's a far darker side to these tracks, maybe more connected to Joy Division, the Durutti Column and Thom Yorke.
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