Ghosts Of Sunset
No Saints In The City – Golden Robot Records
While musical fads and trends come and go (and with increasing rapidity) there’s good reason why raunchy rock n’ roll remains ever present; quite simply it’s the mutt’s nuts and perhaps the finest purveyors of said genre are Ghosts Of Sunset. No Saints In The City is their aptly titled debut album and opening shot ‘Tonight’ is the perfect mission statement. Arriving with all guitars firing it’s a bawdy bar-room brawler that’s looking for trouble and throws its weight around like the illegitimate lovechild of Faster Pussycat and Rose Tattoo. Once that riff kicks in and tangles with the loutish lyrics (“I got a razor hidden in my boot”) you know you’re in for some good music. However, Ghosts Of Sunset are far from a one trick pony and this is an album that ebbs and flows taking in the atmospheric title track and the bluesy ‘Bastards Of The Bowery’ but what stitches it all together is an urban, nocturnal feel. No Saints In The City is akin to a midnight stroll through a rain-soaked, neon-lit metropolis and each track is a vignette of the characters you pass. The future of rock n’ roll is in safe hands.
Review by Peter Dennis