One of my favorite songs on this album would have to be Ghosting. The way this song leads in is haunting (did I just make a title reference? Hmmm…) It’s as if Jake Webb, the lead singer of Methyl Ethel, is vocalizing himself in an empty room on a vast stage. Ghosting is lovely in a melancholy way, seeming as something that has come and gone never to be seen again. Simply, a ghost of what use to be.
Throughout the album as a whole, I was given a sense of Ebb and Flow. Wavering between two moods of being – from one state of mind into the other. It seems that Webb is portraying a loss of self to a newfound beginning, at least from what I’ve gotten throughout Are You Haunted?
The title of the album itself is significant to what the songs articulate, where it’s evident that Webb is quite possibly haunted by something, or it’s us, the audience, to ask that question to ourselves.
Each song holds large amounts of ambiguity, making references to something larger than him as a person, to pondering thoughts that are more philosophical. And maybe that’s why I’m left feeling a sense of ‘hauntings’ after listening to this album, questioning things myself. The ambiguity within the lyrics has left me wondering more about what exactly the songs are trying to articulate.
Aside from lyrical analysis, the music itself is something I find quite interesting. It’s upbeat, positive, and something I’d want to move around to – on the flip side, the lyrics themselves, reading them, do not give off the same moods I felt with the music alone.
I like the many aspects put into this album, to be left wondering more about the songs, and to the way I felt a sense of pull and push at the same time. This is what all around makes the album stand out to me.
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