Love Ghost's Thirteen Is Out, With a "Blood & Roses" Video

By Cole Ashby, November 14, 2026

Love Ghost's new album, Thirteen, is out November 13, 2026, under the band's own name. The Los Angeles group also posted an official video for "Blood & Roses" on its YouTube channel. The set runs 13 songs. Mike Summers produced the record, a working relationship he has been talking about in public since at least 2021, when he said he was developing the band and had just put out its "Wolfsbane" single with Rico Nasty.

A record built from the outside

"Thirteen is probably the most vulnerable record I've ever made," frontman Finnegan Bell says in the press release. He traces the songs to "that feeling of always being on the outside looking in." In his words, "It's an acoustic midwest grunge album about isolation, identity, and trying to find something beautiful in the uglier parts of life. It feels like a collection of memories that I probably should've buried."

The album follows two earlier two-song singles drawn from the same tracklist. "Into the Woods" and "Something in the Water" came out October 2, 2026. "Turpentine This House" and "Pointless" followed on October 23.

The "Blood & Roses" trilogy

"Blood & Roses" sits at track 9, between "Snake Boy" and "Dog Teeth & Rosaries." Bell says the song "is actually a part of a trilogy within the album that loosely tells the mythology of the forbidden fruit." He calls it a story "about wanting the thing you know will ruin you," told "as a love story, one that has seduction, obsession and even violence, and that feeling of taking one bite even when you already know you can't go back."

The official video, on the band's own channel, credits Summers as producer. The rest of the tracklist runs from "Church for a Vampire" and "Pasadena" through "Can't Run Forever," "Am I Evil?," "I Left My Home," and "Filthy Hands." Thirteen is on Apple Music and at the band's official site.

A full album about not belonging, finished with the producer who has been in the band's corner for years, is a clearer statement than another one-off.

Love Ghost: "Blood & Roses" (Official Music Video)

Love Ghost: Thirteen (Apple Music)