Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts album review

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Albums can be lots of things but what many of them aren’t are things of beauty. Siobhan Donaghy’s second album, Ghosts, is such a thing of beauty that it deserves to be hung up in an art gallery.

Donaghy’s beautiful voice floats along a series of swooning, swirling songs with more grace than Darcey Bussell pirouetting her way to cloud nine. She may have once been in the Sugababes yet now Donaghy sounds like a slightly more mainstream Kate Bush, which is no bad thing. Woefully-overlooked hauntingly-gorgeous first single Don’t Give It Up cheekily almost even nicks one of Bush’s song titles but is thoroughly deserving of the association. Other Bush-esque highlights include the stunning Medevac, the trippy loveliness of So You Say and the weirdly intoxicating backwards singing of the epic Ghosts. 

Amongst this heady blend of floaty splendour and random noises, the jaunty lollop of 12 Bar Acid Blues sticks out like a sore thumb and is the only of the heavenly eleven I can ever see grating. The truth is that every one of these sophisticated tracks is pretty perfect and I would rattle on more except I’m running out of synonyms for beautiful…