Premiere: Spirit Ghost "Love Me"
Photo By Matt Smith
SOFT GUITARS AND CHARMING VOCALS - “Love Me” emulates a feel-good vibe perfect for the winding down summer. Spirt Ghost’s latest single has a simple flow that immediately captures the listener, leading them along a sweet journey. Filled with an array of instrumentals that layer effortlessly with the vocals, “Love Me” is a strong addition to Spirit Ghost’s discography. Making music under the moniker Spirit Ghost, Alex Whitelaw brings in elements from surf rock to pop to even a little jazz. What started as a simple project for fun in 2012 has developed into a project with two full-length projects and much more music to come.
Check out his new track “Love Me” and read below to learn more about the track, Whitelaw’s quarantine and more.
LUNA: How are you doing these days? Any fun quarantine hobbies?
WHITELAW: I'm doing alright all things considered, and I've been getting really into video games, which I didn't have much time for pre quarantine. I forgot how fun they are. I'm also just reading, and writing, and watching a bunch of movies and TV.
LUNA: Can you share a bit about the creative process for "Love Me"?
WHITELAW: I wrote "Love Me" right before I moved from Massachusetts to Austin, TX and it didn't take long to write, it was one of those songs that I just had all the parts ready to go for some reason. It doesn't always happen like that, but when it does it's a huge relief.
LUNA: Has quarantine impacted your overall creative process as a whole?
WHITELAW: Quarantine has greatly impacted my creative process. I think when it first happened, I was like okay, I'll just write a ton of music and when this over I'll have a bunch of new music for everyone, but as time went on it got harder and harder to feel like writing or to feel inspired to write anything. So at the moment I'm just learning a bunch of new tricks and techniques on the guitar that I probably should have learned when I was first starting out.
LUNA: Lyrically, what line are you most proud of in "Love Me"?
WHITELAW: I think I'm most proud of the outro lyrics. There is something cathartic about them for me. It just felt nice to say, or I guess sing, those things so concisely and honestly.
LUNA: Do you find yourself drawn to common themes or narratives?
WHITELAW: All the time. Almost to a frustrating degree. I think to myself sometimes, that things are bad and you've seen some bad shit, but stop talking about it so damn much. I actively try to vary my songwriting but that can be hard, I think some things are just easy to write about, but I like trying to push myself to write about something I haven't before.
LUNA: Sonically, wow have you seen your sound evolve since you first started making music?
WHITELAW: I used to not have any idea what I wanted in terms of a sound or sonic quality. I thought if I could get the instruments to line up tempo wise I was golden. I think starting out I was just curious if I could actually write all the parts to a song or write a song at all. I just wanted to see if I could do it, I didn't care about EQ or mix or anything like that. I think now I'm a lot more focused on the tones that make it into songs and I've been more focused on layering sounds and working on harmonies and things that I didn't think about at all before. I want the records to sound progressively bigger so that long time fans can hear the growth and so each record is a little better than the last. Sonically at least.
LUNA: What's been inspiring you lately?
WHITELAW: I've been getting inspired by a lot of books and movies. That is usually what I gravitate towards when I am looking for inspiration. I just want to take in as much of somebody else's creative endeavor as possible. I also had two friends recommend Sweetheart of the Rodeo by The Byrds recently and now I'm hooked on that and want to make a country record.
LUNA: Of course a lot is up in the air, but do you have any upcoming plans you'd like to share?
WHITELAW: We're just going to keep sharing music and hopefully more often than we have in the past.
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