Shoegaze/Dangerpop RxGhost Release Single/Video From Latest LP

Music Review | 27th July, 2024 RxGhost

Shoegaze band RxGhost are a music project led by Josh Thomas who describes their sound as, weirdo shoegaze music, with the aim of creating music that is big, crisp and clean.

RxGhost began at a dark period for the frontman. Divorce and pressure from work would lead the artist to drinking too much, while taking opiates and speed to try to keep himself together.

After Thomas returned home from a failed attempt at getting clean by living in an RV parked in his brother's driveway, his ex-wife convinced him that he had to go to rehab if he was going to live.

In rehab, I started writing a bunch again. I had lots of songs that were half-finished from before I got clean. Once I was finally healthy enough to start having band practice, I was lucky that Justin and James were still willing to do it since I'd been so flaky for so many years. - Josh Thomas

Following his stint in rehab Thomas was reunited with his bandmates returning to the studio resulting in the LP, Scaffolding.

The latest single released from the LP is the single, Candles, including a music video directed by Matthew Dunehoo.

The track has a steady tempo with guitar tones switching from clean to distorted supporting Thomas raw moody sounding vocal delivery.

Speaking about the track Thomas says;

Candles' is about how it's important to still try to do interesting things and strive for change, even in a world where the super rich have rigged the system. If you keep up with public policy and government handouts, it's hard to feel like the system isn't rigged for the investment class.

Conservatives act like poor people are welfare queens, while ignoring that the ultra wealthy get more handouts than anyone. The middle class is getting fucked by the ultra rich, and it's been obvious for a long time. They have a system set up to get the left and right wing fighting each other, while quietly siphoning all the resources out of the system and hoarding it.

We could die at any time, like tea candles floating on an ocean, getting extinguished by random waves. This song is about how, even in this current reality, it's important to try to do interesting things, even when the system is rigged against us. We won't be here long, let's do something interesting.

RxGhost - Candles (Youtube)

The single Candles is available through all streaming platforms.

Photo Credit: Earshot Media

- Featured -