Two things that I love, music and ghosts, a match made in heaven.
Weighty Ghost
Weighty Ghost by Halifax’s Wintersleep is quite possibly the best song ever. I mean, really, listen to it. First of all, it’s got a really great beat to it, driven almost entirely by a kind of handclapped rhythm, an acoustic guitar, and the powerful yet fragile voice of frontman Paul Murphy. It’s a truly beautiful piece of music. And second, it’s got a great story to it. In my opinion it’s our story, the modern plight of a kind of world without direction, a body without a soul—a soul without a body. To put down a particularly good pun for y’all: it’s haunting.
[...] the songs were well-crafted, well-written and extremely interesting to listen to. Songs like Weighty Ghost, which I count among my favourite songs of all time. But the latter part of the record was a bit [...]