Joining the club of TV and film personalities to crossover into music, Ryan Gosling is releasing his debut album on Anti with the help of friend Zach Shields. Originally, Anti says, the album “was intended to be a soundtrack to a play about a monster-ghost-love-story. When Zach Shields and Ryan Gosling met in 2005 and discovered their mutual obsession with ghosts, they decided to write the afore-mentioned ghastly love story. Scrapping the stage show when costs became prohibitive, they already had songs written and decided to continue.”
They set limits for themselves of not using click tracks and refusing to do more than three takes per song. Between their rules and the fact that they both played instruments that they had never touched before, the songs that I’ve heard so far are raw and have a lo-fi feel to them. Two words that I never thought I would put together in describing a band is Goth-folk. But there’s no other way I can put it.
01 Intro
02 Dead Hearts
03 In the Room Where You Sleep
04 Buried in Water
05 My Body’s a Zombie for You
06 Pa Pa Power
07 Young & Tragic
08 Paper Ships
09 Lose Your Soul
10 Werewolf Heart
11 Dead Man’s Bones
12 Flowers Grow Out of My Grave
The album is out October 6th on Anti.
