Ao lançar “Spilt Milk” (Fortuna Pop!) em 2016 que recebeu grandes elogios, Astor conitnua o mesmo espírito desse disco com James Hoare (Ultimate Painting, Proper Ornaments, Veronica Falls) como o pilar na guitarra. A ele se junta Franic Rozycki (The Wave Pictures) no baixo, Jonny Helm na bateria e Pam Berry (Withered Hand e Black Tambourine) na voz.

O psicadelismo de um dia de chuva de “One for the Ghost” mantém Pete Astor ligado ao mundo contemporâneo e relevante: da inteligência mordaz da faixa-título (‘It’s the wallpaper or me you know/ one of us has got to go/ said Oscar Wilde/ and then he died’), à dor de Walker (‘Walking the town, joining the future to the past/ the line from Arnold Circus all the way to Marble Arch’), passando pela eternal música de amor “Water Tower” e hino ao modernism rural (‘Meet my by the water tower/ it’s my favourite concrete flower’).

Magoado mas muito vivo, Astor e “One for the Ghost” enfrentam o futuro com um sorriso irónico e coração faminto.

‘Time passes. Life happens. People arrive and people leave. Songs celebrate, songs grieve, look at yesterday and smile towards tomorrow; and everywhere, ghosts. One evening, when I was enjoying my favourite red wine, I decided to pour an extra glass for people and times past. Soon it became a tradition, the name of a song and then an album: One for the Ghost.’ Peter Astor