ZERO 7 Yeah Ghost (2009 UK 11-track CD album - While they've been known and loved as the godfathers of exquisite ambient and downbeat pop for the best part of a decade, Yeah Ghost is like nothing you've heard by them before. Spanning everything from dance pop to acoustic folk and everything in between it's an idea-splattered work of genius that even includes a quartet of instrumental tracks derived from their experimental side projects and sampled, overdubbed and rebuilt from scratch. From the evocative intro 'Count Me Out' to the album's shuffling, twitchy closer 'All Of Us' - via the haunting 'Solastalgia' and 'Ghost Symbol' avant-garde electronic and distorted vocals - it's Zero 7 as you've never heard them before, however one thing that remains consistent: the roll call of up-and-coming talent on vocal duties, including singer Eska Mtungwazi. The Londoner, whose collaboration credits include Matthew Herbert and Bugs In The Attic, appears on 'Mr McGee', 'Medicine Man', 'Sleeper' and 'The Road'!)