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Beatings From Their Tell-Tale Hearts
Beatings From Their Tell-Tale Hearts

o, with a modern haunted house It’s not a huge commitment either. And he including ‘Echoes Of You’, ‘Don’t Miss Me?’
Stheme infiltrating ‘Phantoms’, Black had a lot of stuff that really inspired some and ‘Wish You Were Here’. In ‘Only The
Velvet asks the band what it was about lyrical ideas for me. He invented the unreli- Lonely Survive’ Josh sings, ‘He’ll never
Edgar Allen Poe’s work that had inspired able narrator, which I really like. That was scar you like I do’. We ask the band if they
them. Singer and songwriter Josh Ramsay definitely his concept. And he was sort of think many people are scarred by former
replies, “I think I was just trying to look for the first guy to start writing about losing loves.
someone who wrote a lot in horror genres, your mind and going crazy and it really Mike answers, “I think everybody has
but not in a cheesy way. I just kind of hap- spoke to me. And it’s really beautifully put their scars from former loves. That first
pened across his stuff and just started together. His actual wording is gorgeous.” love where you’re coming in blind and full
reading it on a whim. And then I dove in and Previous album, ‘Astoria’, had been of faith and your skin hasn’t been tough-
read all of it. It was also really because his written following a break-up between Josh ened up at all, you’re so vulnerable and
work is mostly short stories, it’s pretty eas- and his long-time girlfriend. This new every time your walls get a little bit thicker
ily digestible if you want to just sit down for album, ‘Phantoms’, focuses on being and stronger and it takes a lot more work to
five minutes and read a story kind of thing. haunted by a former love, with song titles get through them. I think anybody who’s

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