Voltaire’s Ghost

LA Entertainment Weekly published a full feature on the single this week and writer Ryan Bazinet zeroed in on something that goes beyond a standard review. He opens with the Tennyson question — is it better to have loved and lost, or never to have loved at all? Then he walks through the song's production in a way that actually makes sense of the arrangement: the distorted guitar and piano arpeggios, the wailing solos panning left and right, Ruby's vocals moving between delicate and angry. He...

Music Week just published an exclusive interview with Magnus and we think this one is worth your time. They asked the questions we don't always get asked — how the songs actually start, where the inspiration comes from, how we know when something is finished. Magnus got into the role dreams play in the writing process (more than you might expect), and the philosophy behind leaving four songs off Black Petals Fallen to save them for later. On knowing when a song is done: "Art is never...

OutVerge picked up the story on our latest single and we're glad it landed there. The piece gets into what makes this song different from the rest of Black Petals Fallen — the bittersweet romantic core, how it started as an older Magnus demo before Ruby and Josh shaped it into what it became, and the themes of love and fleeting connection that keep running through everything we write. One thing worth noting from the article: "Spirit Animal" has now crossed 150,000 streams. We're still...