‘Ghosts’ is David Wright at his most confident yet. It is an album full of mixed emotions, packed with thematic, memorable melodies and striking vibrant rhythms, with some that manifest themselves in such a way as to fire the imagination into dreaming up supernatural tales all of its own. This is a spooky movie for the mind – a magical collage of pure up-front melody, descriptive themes and atmospheric sounds that can tantalize and stir the imagination for one minute and then soften the soul the next. Seldom has a mix of real tunes (and there are some beautiful examples of that here) and eerie atmospherics been merged so successfully, especially when synthesizers are not always the leading voice in the tales of the unexpected. The rhythms are positively constructed and the melodies are sometimes fast and always infectious, but there is a certain subtlety to this blending of styles and sounds that, despite the subject matter, never threaten to become uneasy or strange in any way, providing the listener with the ideal balance of symphonic instrumental music and special effects required to make an album like this really work to perfection. If you need some loose points of reference, then you need look no further than, Vangelis for his film music, Jarre at his most melodic, Pink Floyd’s languid keyboard guitar tracks and Jeff Wayne’s ‘War Of The Worlds’ for these eerie alien tunes that stuck in your head forever, but there is no cloning work going on here - ‘Walking With Ghosts’ is very much an individual creation that has been influenced mostly by what has gone on in the musician’s life over the past few years and thus features some of David Wright’s most accomplished material to date. Overall, one the most satisfying ‘E.M.’ releases from a UK musician in ages!