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Moonlover is the second studio album by American post-metal band Ghost Bath. Recorded by producer Joshua Schroeder in Michigan,[3] it was released on April 10, 2015 through, Northern Silence Productions.[4] The album is the first Ghost Bath release after the band was revealed to be from North Dakota.[2]
The album drew comparisons to California-based black metal band Deafheaven in terms of style and song titles,[1] which were criticized by Deafheaven guitarist Kerry McCoy.[5]
The album cover art features "La Luna 1989" by Guatemalan photographer Luis González Palma.[6]
The album received generally positive reviews from critics. Adam Kivel of Consequence of Sound thought that the band is "exposing a pained and painful honesty rather than chasing an arbitrary genre mutation." Kivel further wrote: "Rather than approach blackgaze with bared teeth and sharpened knives, Ghost Bath lets you hear the thudding beat of its heart until it can’t hold up anymore."[2]MetalSucks' David Lee Rothmund praised the album, describing it as "a blind dive into a black chasm whose bottom is made of big, cushy teddy bears" and "a real synthesis — not of disparate noises, but of their intensities."[1]