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I really don’t like to write about things that I already feel people have probably already read about elsewhere all over the internet. Dead Man’s Bones is one of these recent things that I’m sure has exploded all over the place like 80 tiny Asian penises all over a tiny Asian girl’s face in some bizarre alien themed bukkake film.

But who can blame the internet? Ryan Gosling is in this band, and he’s an attractive celebrity with serious acting chops. The music itself sounds like Arcade Fire were commissioned to write an album inspired by Disney’s Haunted Mansion, and both those things are ridiculously awesome. You combine those two things with this year’s favorite trend—children’s choirs—and how could you not end up with a winning combination?

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As noted lovingly by Pitchfork in their review (which I wont link to because who needs to link to Pitchfork anyway?) the album isn’t flawless. There’s a glut of ideas here and not all of them are genius. Some of the songs drag (I could do without “Buried in Water”, if only for the fact that “buried in water” sounds pretty stupid, ignoring that the song itself is pretty feh overall) and the pacing is pretty uneven, but when Gosling and Co. get it right, they really get it right.

No song is perfect due to aforementioned glut of ideas usually throwing some sort of sour note into each one (Pa Pa Power comes as close to perfection as anything on the record, marred only by it’s incomprehensible lyrics), but the album as a whole is a fantastic listen and a must have for any spooky girl to furtively fuck to while her parents are out of the house.