Ghost of Our Love [Import]

The Ricochets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 16, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: White Jazz
• ASIN: B0000A5A28
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,005,555 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ghost of Our Love

2. Nobody Around

3. Come Around Over

4. Pick Up the Phone

5. I Know You're Gonna Leave Me

6. Cheater at Heart

7. Red Lights

8. The Depressive Side of Town

9. Bad Shape

10. Guess It's Time

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Energetic 70ish rock with a great singer, November 21, 2003

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brainspin "brainspin" (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghost of Our Love (Audio CD)

Richochets is a band from Fredrikstad, a town in southern Norway. They were first heard in the Oslo club circuit in 1997, but the band had several problems, and was dissolved in 2001.

Suprisingly, they came back early this year (2003) with a great album, "The ghost of our love", which got very good reviews by the few papers that noticed. "Natt & Dag" (Oslo's Village Voice, sort of, almost..) called it the record of the year, although it was still only April.

Everything on this album points to the early seventies. The design of the cover, the swinging, hard guitars, the organ, the desperatly high pitched vocal.

They have really great melodies, energetic and clear sound and an almost sensational singer who sometimes reminds me of Screeming Jay Hawkins. And if you hear it in a bar, you won't notice the lyrics.

The songs are beautiful, simple, three-four chord things. I try to remember who their style idol might be.. hard american inspired rock with that great vocal in the middle ... early Bruce Springsteen, maybe, or Waterboys?

I just returned from New York, and couldn't avoid noticing the renewed interest for simple, guitar based rock. This band fits right in.

I rate them to four stars. The five must be reserved for people who write lyrics as Bob Dylan, in addition to making beautiful music. (But who does?)