Alternative Press Raves About Love Ghost As They Wrap 2020 with “Closure”
LOVE GHOST
—THE L.A.-BASED GENRE BENDING ROCK BAND—RELEASE NEW SINGLE
“CLOSURE”
AN EXPLOSIVE GROWTH YEAR FROM STEADY FLOW OF SINGLES
“The world of genre-defying rock hybrids just got cooler thanks to Los Angeles quintet Love Ghost. . .what’s also relatable is the band’s ability to mesh contemporary trap and hip-hop beats into a guitar-driven universe that offers possibilities, as opposed to routine. Love Ghost just might own 2021 and honestly, we can’t wait.” (December 3, 2020)
--Alternative Press
LOS ANGELES (December 4, 2020) — Los Angeles-based genre-bending band Love Ghost have released their latest single, “Closure.” The song lands where guttural guitars brush up against breathless verses before a hard-hitting chant. For the unfamiliar, the group conjures a style equally informed by Seattle tradition and Souncloud-era fearlessness. Teaming up with producer Danny Saber [Marilyn Manson, Madonna, Alice Cooper], Love Ghost have been prolifically writing and releasing singles on a monthly basis.
Click here to listen to “Closure.”
Wrapping an explosive year of growth resulting from a consistent schedule of monthly single releases, Love Ghost crawl into a space between ethereal grunge and lo-fi bedroom hip-hop punctuated by emotional delivery and airy hooks. They’re previous single, “Angel With a Smoking Gun” was quickly embraced as it’s becoming one of their most popular singles. Generating over six million total streams and views to date, Love Ghost shows no signs of slowing.
Click here to listen to “Angel With a Smoking Gun.”
“I’ll Be Fine” (May, 2020) went viral to the tune of 2 million YouTube views and 683K Spotify streams. The latter also graced coveted editorial playlists such as New Noise on Spotify and Fresh Blood on AppleMusic. Along the way, they attracted praise from LA Weekly, Elicit Magazine, Buzz Bands LA, Alternative Addiction, RIFF Magazine, and more. Building an international fan base, they even toured Ireland, Japan, and Ecuador.
Click here to listen to “I’ll Be Fine.”
Love clings to you forever whether you’re in it or out of it. Like an apparition you can’t shake, it never leaves. The music of Love Ghost haunts in a similar fashion. The Los Angeles quintet consist of Finnegan Bell [lead vocals, guitar], Ryan Stevens [bass, backing vocals], Daniel Alcala [guitar, engineer backing vocals], Samson Young [drums, backing vocals], and Cory Batchler [keys, backing vocals].
“We’re meshing those two sides,” explains Finnegan. “It’s not too urban for the suburban kids, and it’s not too suburban for the urban kids. We’re uniting the rap and rock worlds in our own way, adding guitars to hip-hop, bringing beats to rock, and blurring the lines. It materializes between different genres.”
Long after the heyday of Alternative Nation, Finnegan stumbled upon his parents’ copy of Nevermind. Intrigued by the cover, he popped it into the CD player and immediately fell under the spell of grunge, moving on to Alice In Chains soon after. At 13-years-old, he grabbed an acoustic guitar and played in coffee houses and backyards around Los Angeles. Inspired by everything from The Smashing Pumpkins and My Chemical Romance to Juice WRLD, XXXTentacion, Lil Peep, City Morgue, and $uicideboy$, he quietly cultivated a sound akin to “Nirvana putting beats over their songs with a trap machine.”
