Is it acceptable, nay responsible, for a record reviewer to describe an album as beyond description? Crap, I should start over then. Giving Up the Ghost moves through moods as easily as said spirit slips through the walls of an old house.
While based in acoustic indie folk type of arrangements, Windsor for the Derby don’t limit themselves to any style or set of influences for what could very well be called their greatest recording achievement to date.
They set soft vocals atop beautiful guitar picking and backed them with mesmerizing hand-clap percussion, or filtered them over synthesized electronic sounds that come and go like a mist. These 10 tracks provide the soundtrack for laying on your bed late at night thinking about the day’s events, or what you want to buy for that cute girl who works at the video game store.
– Chris Smith
Windsor for the Derby (Secretly Canadian)