Photo by Olivia Niles
Los Angeles-based eclectic rock alchemists SPIRIT IN THE ROOM are pleased to unveil their new video for “Creepy Phone Calls.” The track comes by way of the outfit’s Passengers EP, out today on Housecore Records!
The vision of Louisiana-born and Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Dennis R. Sanders, SPIRIT IN THE ROOM unfurls through cigarette smoke, cheap booze, and distortion like an anachronistic fever dream soundtracked by a collision of gothic vocal hues, immersive alternative architecture, and jarring metallic catharsis. It’s scary at times. It’s sad at other times. If you ever wondered what goes on in the head of a film noir hitman, horror novel asylum inmate, or a golden age silver screen villain, it might sound something like SPIRIT IN THE ROOM.
SPIRIT IN THE ROOM’s Passengers EP includes three previously unreleased tracks (“Creepy Phone Calls,” “Show Me You,” and “Covenant”) as well as three additional tracks (“I Have A Heart,” “Affectionate Projectile,” “You Caught Hell”) that have been released throughout the years on YouTube, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud but never before available as a proper collection.
Comments Sanders on the band’s latest single, “‘Creepy Phone Calls’ has been one of my favorites for a minute. I was reading a good bit of Lovecraft when I wrote this one so I’m sure a lot of the characters found their way into the lyrics. Maybe there’s a reference to living with a ghost and some unsettling memories here and there as well. This is a very bass driven EP. I tend to write a lot on the bass and drums for the most part. Then I decorate with guitar and vocals and some synth pieces here and there. I will say that if you’re thinking that this is the sound of the band and you have an idea of where it’s heading, you might be sadly mistaken. Stay tuned!”
The video for “Creepy Phone Calls” was directed by Sanders, shot by Olivia Niles, and edited by Jordan Eliseo Santos.
Watch SPIRIT IN THE ROOM’s “Creepy Phone Calls” video at THIS LOCATION.
Watch SPIRIT IN THE ROOM’s previously released lyric video for “Show Me You” at THIS LOCATION.
All tracks on Passengers were written, recorded, performed, mixed, and mastered by Dennis R. Sanders. Passengers will be released digitally.
Find orders for SPIRIT IN THE ROOM’s Passengers EP at THIS LOCATION and additional merch items at the Housecore Records webshop at THIS LOCATION.
Passengers EP Track Listing:
- Creepy Phone Calls
- Show Me You
- I Have A Heart
- Affectionate Projectile
- You Caught Hell
- Covenant
SPIRIT IN THE ROOM remains comfortable in the dark. Audiences initially met Sanders as part of Black Light Burns. However, he introduced SPIRIT IN THE ROOM during 2010 before revealing a series of projects — The Holy Phobia, Pt. 1 EP (2014), Demon (2015), and Spirit In The Room, Vol. 1 EP (2019) — in between various singles and countless shows. SPIRIT IN THE ROOM released their Flamingo EP in 2022 via Housecore Records. Maximum Volume Music hailed, “…a blistering heavy garage-come-industrial metal banger,” while Distorted Sound wrote, “we experience a whole range of feelings from paranoia to obsession that make Flamingo what it is: a musically progressive record with Sanders more than ready to take risks along the way.”
In 2023, SPIRIT IN THE ROOM served as support for Pantera on four shows in the Western US. The band continues to perform throughout the US with more shows to be announced in the coming weeks.
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