Interestingly-named Manchester band Working For A Nuclear Free City haven’t produced a conventional double album here. What Businessmen & Ghosts really consists of is the entirety of the band’s self-titled début album, the majority of the Rocket EP, and also new material. At a whopping 29 tracks and almost an hour and 45 minutes long, this is a comprehensive rather than bite-sized introduction to the band’s music.

Like the vaguely similar project that was Use Your Illusion, the 1991 kind-of double album by Guns N’ Roses, Businessmen & Ghosts is very much a mixed bag rather than a coherent, focused album. In fact, this lack of focus and inconsistency in terms of style and quality is the main gripe that emerges from the album. When WFANFC are at their best though, they’re very good. At times “Innocence” sounds like the soundtrack to a hip 70s muscle car or blaxploitation film – all cool beats and funky wicky-wah guitars. This is a band that can convey such cool, when they set their mind to it. Continue Reading