Dear Youth Exclusive LP

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing.

Dear Youth is The Ghost Inside’s fourth full-length album and it was co-produced by Jeremy McKinnon of A Day To Remember and Andrew Wade. Front man Jonathan Vigil explains the concept behind the album in a letter that he wrote to his younger self:

Dear Youth,

I’m writing to you now because it seems Ive lost my way. I can’t pinpoint exactly when it started, but I know that its not like it was before. Ive realized the more time that passes, the more we lose touch. Its starting to feel like all I ever do now is lose touch with things. But not you, I never wanted to lose you.

I wish I had something to blame it all on, but I dont. One day I was there and the next I was here. As if I was dreaming and suddenly woken up. These days I’m always wondering if what I’ve done is enough. Its getting harder and harder for me to shake this feeling of stagnance.

So old friend Im writing to ask you what it feels like to have the whole world in your hand? Where we could set out and do anything that we imagined. Endless possibilities way before complacence set in. To be honest with you, Ive forgotten what that all feels like. There was a wonder about us that has long since faded. That sense of excitement, I miss it.

Dear youth, will you show me again? I need to be reminded of those times, back before this began…

– xx