Despite liking this album quite a bit when it was released, it has become much more vital in the intervening years. A lot of that has to do with the way the band collapsed in on itself at the peak of its success. You can see what happened in heartbreaking detail in the documentary short Tripping in the Dark. Brendan Lukens is clearly mentally unwell in that thing (he has since been diagnosed with bioplar disorder), which makes his songs on the back half of Holy Ghost that much more affecting (particularly the album closer “Just Another Face”). Jake Ewald’s contributions in the album’s first half are Modern Baseball at their best, striking that perfect blend between pop-punk and emo revivalism and delivering some of the decade’s catchiest hooks.
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