Texan bluesy outfit The Black Angels seem to have found their niche and are happy to stick resolutely to it rather than attempt to move forward. By no means an awful record, but certainly a disappointing one Not to be confused with Black Kids, Black Lips or Black Mountain (well, maybe a bit), The Black Angels hail from Texas and make music of a woozy, bluesy persuasion. They take their name from a song on The Velvet Underground's seminal 1967 debut LP - 'The Black Angel's Death Song' , keep up - and their logo is even based on an image of The VU's one-time collaborator Nico. They released their own first record, Passover , in 2006 with Spacemen 3 and The Warlocks clear, excellent reference points. Directions To See A Ghost starts off promisingly. 'You On The Run' kicks in with ominous drums and bass, like some kind of undead marching band playing songs off the first B.R.M.C. record. Mainman Christian Bland - he of the unfortunate name, given what follows - sounds like Interpol's Paul Banks on the verses (monotone, portentous) before morphing into The Doors' Jim Morrison for the chorus (shaman-esque, dramatic) - and it's enjoyable. Consummate, even. Along come 'Doves' and 'Science Killer' , both in the same vein, but, soon enough, it becomes hard to distinguish where one song ends and another begins... and not in a good way, more a one trick pony sort of way. It's also difficult to make out what Bland's