Businessmen & Ghosts

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Businessmen & Ghosts
WorkingForANuclearFreeCity Businessmen&Ghosts.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 2007
Genre Electronic music, electronica, shoegaze
Length1:44:21
Label Deaf Dumb & Blind
Working for a Nuclear Free City chronology
Working for a Nuclear Free City
(2006)
Businessmen & Ghosts
(2007)
Jojo Burger Tempest
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Exclaim! (favourable) link
NME (8/10) (07/26/2008, p.33)
Pitchfork Media (7.6/10) link

Businessmen & Ghosts is a double album by British band Working for a Nuclear Free City. The album is Working for a Nuclear Free City's U.S. debut album.

Contents

The double disc set includes their self-titled first album as well as the majority of their Rocket EP (lacking only one of the four tracks, "Waiting Game"), both previously UK-only releases.

Track listing

All songs written by Phil Kay (credited simply as "Dekko"), Gary McClure, Ed Hulme, Jon Kay.

Disc One

  1. "224th Day" – 1:42
  2. "Troubled Son" – 2:49
  3. "Dead Fingers Talking" – 3:29
  4. "Rocket" – 4:47
  5. "Kingdom" – 4:06
  6. "Sarah Dreams of Summer" – 3:22
  7. "Apron Strings" – 3:56
  8. "All American Taste" – 3:06
  9. "Quiet Place" – 4:33
  10. "So" – 3:57
  11. "England" – 7:24
  12. "Over" – 3:44
  13. "Fallout" – 1:53
  14. "Forever" – 4:35
  15. "Stone Cold" – 3:27

Disc Two

  1. "Eighty Eight" – 3:37
  2. "Donkey" – 4:08
  3. "Get a Fucking Haircut" – 1:37
  4. "Innocence" – 4:18
  5. "Home" – 1:17
  6. "Heaven Kissing Hill" – 4:24
  7. "The Tape" – 2:58
  8. "Asleep at the Wheel" – 4:20
  9. "Pretty Police State" – 1:08
  10. "Soft Touch" – 6:32
  11. "Pixelated Birds" – 1:39
  12. "Je suis le vent" – 3:03
  13. "Nancy Adam Susan" – 5:58
  14. "The Tree" – 2:32

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