THESE ARE MY GHOSTS
THESE ARE MY GHOSTS is the musical pseudonym of Ryan Henry Cox — aka The Obsessive Compulsive Recorder — a metro-Detroit lifer, writer, musician, and the former singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the indie pop-rock group The Good Things and the garage-rockers The Red Rocks.
REVIEW
“RYAN HENRY COX IS AN UNDERGROUND MAD SCIENTIST IN THE LOCAL MUSIC SCENE.”
"'I’d Rather Just Die' is a David-vs-Goliath tale, where the hero emotionally writhes through a coming-of-age journey towards confronting a proverbial Goliath, in this case, a porpoise. An infectious drum beat starts to march under Sergio Leone-esque whistles and layered guitars, one a delicate ukulele, the other a crunchier guitar growl. Cox basically gives you an eclectic barbershop quartet version of his vocals, re-recording himself four (or more) times in different registers, two of them playfully singing very low and very high to curtain his mid-high rustbelt warble. Each syllable is slapped with a bit of 50s-throwback rock reverb. And then, at those catchy refrains, he lets that exuberant banjitar erupt with an exhilarating riff."
— Jeff Milo; WDET; Detroit; Full Article
LISTEN
Currently, the only song available from These Are My Ghosts is “I’d Rather Just Die” (2019) — the first single from a quasi-Quixotic absurdist pop Spaghetti-Western island fantasy concept album titled Defeats the Porpoise; or, The Tale of Johnny and the Indomitable Sea Monster.