THE GHOST
This is a Hospital (Some Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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I would like this a lot more if there weren't already about a hundred bands out there that sounded similar to this, because these guys are actually pretty good. The intelligent lyrics are deliciously maudlin and depressing, with lots of references to heartbreak and anger and death and getting sad and drunk, shouted loudly over a backdrop of multiple guitars played in minor chords and pounding drums, with each song following that pre-ordained pattern of melodic interlude-explosive refrain-melodic interlude-explosive refrain that's written somewhere into the Emo Code of Conduct. This would be great to listen to if I was sixteen - actually, I'd probably really dig it if I was sixteen. Yeah.

© 2002 - Holly Day