Music Recs: A Chorus of Ghosts

Some time ago I said on twitter that I want to make a music rec list & asked what vibe should I go for. Hannah Abigail Clarke gave me “songs at the midsection of 🌈 and ☠️🦷🦇”. (And by the way, if you still haven’t, you should totally preorder Hannah’s book, The Scapegracers. Teen gay witches!)

I’m not going to lie. I was pretty liberal with that theme, and so my choices might not be the most obvious. All of them are by LGBT artists, of course, so all of them cover the rainbow part, really. But I treated the death and scary, monster-ish part in a few different ways.

So there are songs that talk about dying & suffering (Die Alone, Martyr) of people, but also places (Tayf (Ghost). There are songs celebrating life (BL, Gaia). There are songs which vibes made me think of a dark night. And more! Hopefully my choices are self-explanatory, but please don’t ask me to give my reasoning in actual words.

(The title of the mix comes from Tayf (Ghost) by Mashrou’ Leila.)

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I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Miya Folick (biracial Japanese-Ukrainian sapphic artist)
Gaia by LEADR (Vietnamese-American queer artist)
Sunrise by MERLOT (Black queer nonbinary artist)

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BL by QUEEN BEE (Japanese band; mixed-race Black nonbinary lead singer)
Roses by Arner (gay artist)
Die Alone by Saro (biracial Black gay artist)
Describe by Perfume Genius (gay artist)

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Bone by Quarterback (Jamaican Irish gay artist)
Martyr by Guard (gay artist)
Impossible by Carlos Vara (gay artist)

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Holy by Zolita (lesbian artist)
Sanctify by Years & Years (gay lead singer)
No Glory in the West by Orville Peck (gay artist)

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Aries by Bill Priss (queer artist)
Tayf (Ghost) by Mashrou’ Leila (Lebanese band; gay lead singer)
Holy Water by morgxn (queer artist)
fake dói by Linn da Quebrada & Lao (Black Brazillian trans artist)

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Poppy by RIS (Bulgarian queer artist)
Y by NEO 10Y (British Indian nonbinary pansexual artist)
Grand Canyon by Cub Sport (queer band)

The mix is available here.

Even if this mix only makes sense to me, hopefully you at least found some new artists here! Who’s your favourite?