{"id":3373,"date":"2016-04-15T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:16:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:16:05","slug":"good-read-good-listen-good-drink-carter-mcneil-ghost-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2016\/04\/15\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-carter-mcneil-ghost-king\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Read A Good Listen and A Good Drink: Carter McNeil, Ghost King"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. Imagine: You bring out one of the good rocks glasses (or your favorite mug or a special occasion tea cup) and pour a couple fingers of amber liquid (or something dark and strong or just some whole milk). You drop the needle on the jazz platter (or pull up a blues album on your mp3 player or dig out that mixtape from college). Ensconcing yourself in the coziest seat in the house, you crack the spine on a classic (or find your place in that sci-fi paperback or pull up a biography on your e-book reader). And then, you go away for a while. Ah, bliss.<\/p>\n

In this series, some of NTSIB’s friends share beloved albums, books and drinks to recommend or inspire.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Ghost King<\/a> is one of the bands I was sorry to miss at SXSW, not least because I arrived at the venue not two minutes after they got finished. <\/p>\n

SO CLOSE. AND YET SO FAR. <\/p>\n

However, in much happier news, their new record – Bones<\/i> – has been turned loose upon the world, and we can listen to it any time we want.<\/p>\n

It’s an oddly-shaped little gem. The best way I can think of to describe it is “occasionally syrupy surf pop with an undercurrent of fuzzy menace.”<\/p>\n

Ghost in Love<\/i> is one of the poppier tunes:<\/p>\n