The surf-garage rock group Spirit Ghost, the project from Alex Whitelaw, has a new album on the way and following January's single "Destroyer," they've shared another new tune entitled "Great." Steady beats anchor the tune as Whitelaw's jaunty vocal delivery kicks in with serene promise and hits with sturdy rhythms. There's a buzzing melody that injects the track with an electric pulse and a strong vocal chorus adds even more texture to the song, giving it a hefty weight beyond the more casual vibes that you may be accustomed to from the group and the lyrics dig deeper at so many of the problems facing society at large today. When speaking about the new song, Whitelaw shared:
"Great" is a song about the frustrations of being lower working class/poor. It deals with landlords, electric companies, oil companies, and grocery stores saying they deserve more, while people exhaust themselves to afford basic necessities. It details snake oil salesmen who are constantly at our door offering us a better life, but never delivering.
The only thing promised to us in the lower classes is more lines of credit we can’t pay back, mounting medical bills, and looming evictions. Yet we are supposed to have some patriotism and some reverence, for being allowed to work 7 days a week, for the opportunity to destroy our bodies working manual labor jobs or destroy our spirits hunched over a desk for hours doing mundane and meaningless shit. I wrote it because I don’t think the lower working class poor are celebrated enough. I wrote it about my family and for people who have families like mine, that don’t know if they can afford the holidays this year, or oil to keep their house warm, or food to keep them healthy.
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