Taste Test: Chief Ghoul drained dry as he cries, ‘Let Me In’
The gothic-folk perform wraps himself completely in dark romance with a new song.
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His bones crack in time with the guitar’s soft murmur. Chief Ghoul (real name Lee Miles) squeezes his heart for his deliciously macabre tale “Let Me In,” a haunted gothic song about a romance’s suffocating strokes. “Took a beating on the reeds / To let all my blood flow,” sings Miles, whose voice twists around the melody with enrapturing sorrow. His slow descent is both captivating and downright unnerving. He warms his hands on the coals of outlandish fiends and the chilly bumps in the night, the moon hanging as an omniscient wandering eye overhead, and with a truly visionary brand of folk, culling together Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash and Lindi Ortega, his breathless performance freezes the skin. “Please, just let me in / Into that great unknown,” he pleads. His grand gesture is one of unconditional sacrifice, and even knowing the cost, he’s willing to lay down his soul for love.
“Let Me In” is ripped from Miles’ latest record, Damned, out everywhere now.
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