There's a ghost that inhabits the Charlatans UK's new album, Tellin' Stories. The ghost isn't metaphorical, or even particularly metaphysical,

but it is "meta" in the sense that it brings circles of subtle meanings to several tracks on the album, and it's also physical, in that you can literally feel its

presence hanging over every song. The ghost is that of the Manchester band's late keyboard player Rob Collins, who died in a car crash in July of 1996...