Fourth album, following 2006's 'The Garden', from the Brit downtempo/chillout duo. Not content to make the same album again, with 'Yeah Ghost' they have turned in a markedly different work brimming with new ideas, from funky uptempo club bouncers, through avant-garde ambient, to indie-influenced, organic-sounding tracks like the free single 'Everything Up (Zizou)'. Features vocals from folkie Martha Tilston and the soulful, throaty Eska Mtungwazi, who has performed with Matthew Herbert.

Jul 2009

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Think you've got the Zero 7 sound pegged? Well, in the time-honoured tradition of press releases we urge you to think again. The duo of Binns and Sam Hardaker – really have pushed the boundaries to breaking point.

While they've been known and loved as the godfathers of exquisite ambient and downbeat pop for the best part of a decade, their latest album ‘Yeah Ghost’ is like nothing you've heard by them before.

With the tempo ratcheted right up, Yeah Ghost's battery of new ideas is set to jolt the world out of the reverie they've held it in thus far. Spanning everything from dance pop to acoustic folk and everything in between it's an idea-splattered work of genius that even includes a quartet of instrumental tracks derived from their experimental side projects (Kling/Ingrid Eto) and sampled, overdubbed and rebuilt from scratch.

From the evocative intro 'Count Me Out' to the album's shuffling, twitchy closer 'All Of Us' – via the haunting 'Solastalgia' and 'Ghost sYMbOL'' avant-garde electronic and distorted vocals – it's Zero 7 as you've never heard them before. 'Destiny' this aint. One thing that remains consistent though is the roll call of up-and-coming talent on vocal duties, including singer Eska Mtungwazi. The Londoner, whose collaboration credits include Matthew Herbert and Bugs In The Attic, appears on 'Mr McGee', 'Medicine Man', 'Sleeper' and 'The Road'.