Ghost Cult continues our “End of Year Guest Post Extravaganza” with a slew of posts from bands, industry, PR pros, and more! We’ll be sharing lists, memories, and other shenanigans from our favorite bands, partners, music industry peers, and other folks we respect across the globe. In this edition, we have lists from Logan, Jim, and Sam of Doom-gazers Greet Death. Their excellent 2019 album New Hell is out now via Deathwish Inc., and you can get it here.

Adrianne Lenker – Songs

I grew my thumbnail out so I could attempt to fingerpick like her. It looks disgusting and shit is always getting stuck inside of it. A lot of good songs on here.

 

Andy Shauf – The Neon Skyline

This album inspired me to try “stream of consciousness” songwriting and I ended up with a song about trying to find my girlfriend in a grocery store and it fucking sucked. He sings with an unhinged Canadian accent.  

 

 Same – Plastic Western

We played with this band in Pittsburgh and I was blown away by how good they sounded. Some person drove their car over a parking block and off a huge-ass ledge. I really like the song “Shoot It.”

 

 

Jim

Rina Sawayama – Sawayama

This record absolutely fucking rocks

 

 Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure?

Not a single dud here. I’d get attacked with a hammer to make a record this good.

 

Tennis – Swimmer

A terrific mix of classic dream pop and Carpenters records that never overstays its welcome

 

Sam

Teenage Halloween – Teenage Halloween

I want the world for this band. They’ve been grinding for a long time and this year they finally put out the banger debut LP that I knew they would. Amazing people who write spectacular and important songs.

 

Cosmic Putrefaction – The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers

This one-man Italian death metal project stuck with me because it’s a masterfully concentrated and presented record that contemplates the horrors of a hostile and uncaring cosmos. What’s not to like?

 

Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher

The closing track on this record is my favorite song of the year. Haunting Americana songwriting that’s shockingly minimal but dramatic and orchestrated when it needs to be.