Love Ghost, with their new track “Spirit Box,” they’ve pretty much summoned a whole séance on vinyl. Known for their genre-fluid sound and emotionally raw storytelling, the L.A.-based outfit channels pain, poetry, and power into a melting pot of grunge, alt-rock, and emo, with just enough metal seasoning to leave your soul slightly singed.
Right off the bat, “Spirit Box” lures you in with a delicate, melancholic piano line, soft as ghost breath but soaked in sadness. It’s that signature Love Ghost move, start soft, make you feel something, then hit you like a freight train. The vocals, carried by Finnegan Bell’s gravelly, youthful timbre, drip with gentle vulnerability. There’s a world-weariness in their lived-in tone, like they’ve seen some things you don’t talk about in daylight.
Soon after, drums start rumbling like thunder off in the distance, cymbals crashing like warning signs. And then, as if the spirit box itself picks up a frequency from the other side, Bell’s voice splits, his usual delivery staying steady while another voice, raw and aching, rises from beneath like a banshee scream from the subconscious. Guitars blaze. Drums go full hailstorm. And yet, that elegant piano? Still playing underneath it all, grounding the chaos in something fragile.
Lyrically, as always, Love Ghost isn’t afraid to dive into the deep end—trauma, mental health, emotional ghosts—they call it out instead of sweeping it under the rug.
They know how to walk the tightrope between emo sensitivity and hard-rock chaos, and with “Spirit Box,” they do it blindfolded, mid-storm, and still land on both feet.
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Review by: Naomi Joan