About Dead Man's Bones' Dead Man's Bones
This album was not supposed to be an album. This was intended to be a soundtrack to a play about a monster-ghost-love-story. When Zach Shields and Ryan Gosling met in 2005 and discovered their mutual obsession with ghosts, they decided to write the aforementioned ghastly love story. Scrapping the stage show when costs became prohibitive, they already had songs written and decided to continue. The result is a striking collection of doo-wop songs about werewolves, haunting melodies telling tales of zombies with broken hearts, and children singing the joys and pains of being alive or being dead.