Jamie T – ‘Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning)’ review: making peace with the past

To live is to be haunted. Spend any considerable time in one physical location, industry or headspace, and you’ll create spectres that creep up on you and pull you back to past lives without a moment’s notice. The only way to exorcise them is to live with them, process them, and make peace. READ MORE: Jamie T tells us about new album at Reading 2026: “I’m really happy to be where I am” For Jamie T, some of the ghosts he’s collected over the years emerged in old voice memos – ideas he’d recorded across his career but forgotten about until he dug through the app when he got a new phone. The foundation of his sixth album, ‘Ghosts (100 Days Of Morning)’, turning them into proper, fleshed-out songs helped him reconcile with himself on the other side of a difficult period – at once the end of one chapter and the beginning of something new. “Ghosts, they follow you”, he hollers on the punk chug of ‘Waist 36 Leg 32’, a recognition of how the past can linger even as time moves on. This isn’t an album that wallows in despair, though. Instead, it accepts reality – even if it “bites”, as he observes at one point – and finds a way to move on from the negatives. “‘Cause life’s a losing game, and...