Love Ghost - Let It All Burn
LOVE GHOST LIGHTS IT UP ON ‘LET IT ALL BURN’
“Fuck what they say, I make my own way” – snarls vocalist Finnegan Bell on “Let It All Burn,” the kick-ass, take-no-prisoners music video from Love Ghost.
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Bell explains, “’Let It All Burn’ is how I see the world through my 18-year-old eyes. The hypocrisy and unwanted advice that weighed me down during senior year led to this song. My Dad being diagnosed with stage 3 cancer made me more determined.”
Produced by Danny Saber, whose resume includes the Rolling Stones, U2, David Bowie, and Marilyn Manson, the song is the latest from Los Angeles-based alt-rock outfit Love Ghost, comprising: Finnegan Bell (vocals, guitar), Ryan Stevens (bass, backing vocals), Samson Young (drums, backing vocals), Nicky Renard (lead guitar), and Cory Batchler (keyboards).
Young, brash, and mega-talented, Love Ghost has toured extensively, performing in Ireland, Japan, and Ecuador, along with collecting a number of awards. And they’ve shared the stage with Buckcherry, Smash Mouth, Berlin, The Young Dubliners, The Tubes, Fuel, and Irish singer-songwriter Mundy.
At the present juncture, the band is working on an album, also produced by Danny Saber, and have two new singles – “Dead Brother” and “I’ll Be Fine” – in the can ready for release in 2020. Having had the opportunity to listen to both tracks, all Rawckus can say is, “Ooh La La! These tracks are double-bing-bang-hellishly superb.”
Renard parades her nonpareil gift on her axe during the solo, where she cuts loose with visceral sepulchral licks, both gravitational and fulminating, like carborane superacid, infusing the tune with bravura caustic muscle.
“Let It All Burn” opens on a stridently actinic thrumming guitar segueing into a powerfully vibrating alt-rock melody flavored with industrial tinctures embellished with whiffs of punk potency. A pulsating bassline and Samson’s subtle yet muscular drumming furnish the driving rhythm, setting the stage for Bell’s skintight, almost venomous, vocals, as he vents his wrathful resentment at the world’s extant status quo.
Samson’s drumming warrants special attention, emphasizing rumbling rolling timbres rather than smashing cymbals, an effect revealing an innate comprehension of the concept of rhythm and what enhances the pressure and sound of the song as an integrated whole.
Renard parades her nonpareil gift on her axe during the solo, where she cuts loose with visceral sepulchral licks, both gravitational and fulminating, like carborane superacid, infusing the tune with bravura caustic muscle.
The video, directed by the renowned Dean Karr, captures the raw heat and energy of the music in the visuals, shot in a working foundry in South Gate, California. The quintessential image of the video is a guitar riding a conveyor belt toward a kiln.
There’s something cruelly superior about “Let It All Burn” and Love Ghost, a piercing edginess replete with vast primitive power. Love Ghost is a band to keep an eye on.
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