ONLY KNEW

Holy crap - how have I only just found out that Ryan Gosling, the man of all men, has a really good band?
Dead Man's Bones consists of Gosling and Zach Shields, whom met in 2005 and bonded over their love of ghosts and all things creepy and decided to write ghostly love stories together which then became the album. Both Gosling and Shields play every instrument on the record and even taught themselves instruments just for certain songs. They also set themselves little games whilst recording the album, like they couldn't have more than three takes per track or not use certain things to cheat the quality of the music, allowing the mistakes to be incorporated.
It's like an Arcade Fire meets Rocky Votolato meets Jack White. LOVE.

My body is a zombie for you too baby.