#*albums

[emmaharwoods]

Man's Best Friend 🐾 —  One of the most unique and heartbreaking albums I’ve ever made. As I felt emotionally yanked around but truly remained loyal to love, whilst no idea what would be waiting for me on the other side. This album was born through magic and accident. No plans, no pressure, just pure excitement, inspiration, and access to a microphone.

[partynthem]

MUNA - DANCING ON THE WALL (2026)

int: how do you address the tension between wanting to make really horny music as we’re becoming really puritanical as a culture? jo: that is the thesis of the record. naomi: i don’t think we can begin to address it because we’re in it. the only thing that we can try to do is present that cognitive dissonance in the piece. it’ll only become clear to us really what it really means years from now. but the record is about feeling this incredible amount of untapped frustration, horniness, or romantic longing, but under the dark cloud of the moment that we’re living in.  katie: it makes me think about m. gessen’s book about surviving autocracy and totalitarian governments. one of the things that they highlight in studies is that the ideal population for a totalitarian regime is one that is gullible and pessimistic. and being in your body and being connected to your desire makes you less pessimistic. in times that are this hard, what’s carrying us from one day to the next is a desire for something. sometimes it actually is your horniness that is providing you with a will to live. i'm interested in a world where people can fuck and at the same time strive to treat each other well. it’s a horny record and it’s also a record where it’s like, “some of you guys really need to get your act together.”

[kithtaehyung]

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[giaffa]

You know what, your post about people dissing Ghost for sounding too soft makes me wanna listen. The precious skull man has crossed my dash too many times

What playlists do you have hiding under your coat? Any album recs?

We got another one ghesties!! 💜💜

Unbiased answer: if you're approaching Ghost from an 80s soft rock background, the last album (Skeletá) is definitely a good introduction to the band. The sound is very AOR-esque, with distinctive basslines, efficient emotional solos and layered vocals. It's an introspective and relatable album, all the songs deal with base human emotions.

But! Keep in mind that Ghost always upped their sound with every album so Skeletá is the last result of an evolving process, which brings me to the biased answer:

My favourite album is Prequelle because it piques a specific combination of my personal thematic interests and music taste. I can't pick a favourite song because I adore all of them but if you're new to Ghost and you lean towards softer sounds I strongly recommend Dance Macabre (it's very 80s). The album has two devastatingly beautiful ballads (Pro Memoria, Life Eternal), some absolute bangers (Rats, Faith), an iconic instrumental with a sax solo played by an undead satanic pope on stage (Miasma), the most haunting pseudo-proggy track ever (Helvetesfonster), and my very own personal earworm (Witch Image).

If you lean towards 60s/70s occult rock they also have three iconic tunes in that genre: Kiss the Go-Goat, Mary On A Cross and The Future is A Foreign Land (hearing this last one live was An Experience 🫶).

Obligatory soft culty/satanic/tongue in cheek reccomendation: He Is

The second to last album (Impera) has also a specific 80s sound, with its very own bangers (Kaisairon, Watcher In The Sky), ballads (Darkness At The Heart Of My Love, Call Me Little Sunshine), and the most beautiful concert closing song I've ever experienced (Respite On The Spitalfields).

But if you want to truly get hooked on some catchy lyrics, Square Hammer is the way to go!

If you'd prefer to get eased into Ghost's sound from some more familiar songs, here's some covers.

I saved their entire discography in my occult rock playlist, I've been listening to them nonstop for years and now there's a bunch of nameless ghouls running around in my brain

[woozi]

i dont understand when people go "seventeen has too many comebacks" well releasing music is their job?! everyone goes to work everyday doing the same thing as they do!!!!!!!

[bifagvampire]

a tale that becomes folklore is one that is passed down and whispered around. sometimes even sung about. the lines between fantasy and reality blur and the boundaries between truth and fiction become almost indiscernible. speculation, over time, becomes fact. myths, ghost stories, and fables.

folklore moodboard requested by @onceupon-a-decembr

[thorsthot]

if u wanna simultaneously cry and contemplate ur entire existance, i highly recommend The 1975's debut self titled album (with the black and white cover) ive had some good cries with that one lemms tell u 🥴🥴

i repeat, coloreds only event 🤎