Holiday Ghosts

“Falmouth’s finest blend primal garage rock, rock’n’roll, DIY punk, blues and giddy exuberant tunefulness” The Guardian

“Retro garage-pop” Stereogum

“Jangly, infectious” Brooklyn Vegan

“Holiday Ghosts’ scrappy, snappy rock & roll feels almost timeless” KEXP

“Rough hewn jingle-jangle with a heartwarming feel” Clash

“Triumphant and blissful” Gigwise

Garage rockers Holiday Ghosts release brand new album ‘Absolute Reality’, out today (April 21st) via cult tastemaker label FatCat Records (TRAAMS, Honeyblood, The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks).

Arriving as the follow-up to acclaimed 2022 EP ‘Credit Note’, ‘Absolute Reality’ moves through different themes of social commentary, with fiery lyrics and hard-picked guitars, it holds both honest confessions and tall tales, lived stories and movie-like landscapes. It’s full of the noise and texture that Holiday Ghosts love from New York Punk music and New Wave records, seen in tracks such as ‘B. Truck’ and ‘Vulture’, as well as softer moments and sparse arrangements presented in ‘Blue’ and ‘Limbo’. It is poetically resolute in its interpretations of life – giving us a glimpse into joy alongside anger, fear followed by love, a journey true to the everyday human experience. It is diverse, yet decided.

Between their last record ‘North Street Air’, to the present day of ‘Absolute Reality’, Holiday Ghosts have rocked iconic stages throughout the UK and Europe, from Latitude Festival to Left Of The Dial, from Dot to Dot to ‘Misty Fields’ from the Pyrenees mountains to the chapels of Chester. They’ve shared countless stages with acts such as Black Lips, Bodega and The Bug Club, attracted widespread praise across the press community (The Guardian, The Independent, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, KEXP, DIY, So Young, The Line Of Best Fit, Clash, Gigwise), and ticked off live sessions/interviews aplenty on BBC 6 Music with key tastemakers (Steve Lamacq, Mark Riley).

Speaking ahead of their LP release, co-vocalist Kat Kackin explained: “I think the album delivers our familiar jangle in tracks like 'Favourite Freak' and 'Again and Again', but I feel like it really moves into new territories in darker songs like 'Vulture', and the title track 'Absolute Reality', where we've put extra focus on space and textures.

Vocalist/guitarist Sam Stacpoole added: “This is the first album that we’ve ever outsourced an engineer to work with in the studio. It was great for me to finally not be wearing both hats of performing and engineering at once. I was able to focus a lot more on what I was playing on guitar. We were lucky enough to work with two different engineers for this record, both Ben Woods from The Golden Dregs, and Phil Booth of JTSoar Studio”.

Holiday Ghost’s ‘Absolute Reality’ (LP) is out now via FatCat Records and available on all digital platforms.

Holiday Ghosts is Katja Rackin (vocals, drums), Samuel Stacpoole (vocals, guitar, synth), Benedict Nightingale (guitar, backing vocals), Morgan Lloyd Matthews (bass)