We Sleep On Stones is the second single from their well received Beneath This Burning Shoreline album, the follow-up to 2007 debut, Thirst For Romance.
The Bolton-based quintet originally started as lead singer Simon Aldred's solo project before becoming evolving into their current fully fledged band status, early recording sessions with the Doves' Jimi Goodwin and an appearance on Jools Holland before releasing any material only helped to accelerate their formation and heighten their profile.
Picking up where last single Kissing Strangers left off and perhaps following the ideas of of that song to it's logical ten-pints-later conclusion, We Sleep On Stones (the opening track from the aforementioned album) is a brooding, foreboding pean to darker times that fits somewhere between Elbow or Doves, and along the lines of what you could perhaps have imagined from a more fractious Richard Hawley had he not found the redemptive love that he sings of on his recent albums. Refrain "We Sleep On Stones, There's a killer in our homes that drives the night in" just one illustration of this, the vocals crackling through the otherwise tense but still swooning string arrangement. Side-stepping any accusations of repetition, the single's b-side is one of the band's favourite live staples, a cover of CeCe Peniston's '90s house anthem, Finally.
Cherry Ghost will perform a special intimate show at Q The Music Club Live at The Hard Rock Cafe this week, listen to an interview with the band and highlights from the live show on Q Radio on Sunday, December 19 at 4pm.
Available on 12 inch now, (Heavenly Records).
6:11 AM | 23/11/2010
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Amazing song it is!!
Greetings from a big fan in Belgium
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