Following this year's Heaven and Hell EP, the Minus Story continue to scale back their manic instrumentation (the band would call it their "Wall of Crap"), here applying it to an unambiguously somber batch of songs. For those familiar with The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum Corps Dance!, that album's "You Were on My Side" is a good reference point for the sound of their new album No Rest For Ghosts.

From the morose, existential lyrics to the goth cartoons in the liner notes and cross-stitched pink skull on the cover, No Rest for Ghosts aims for the cute side of the macabre. "Little Wet Head" describes being swallowed and regurgitated by an infant in disturbing detail ("You crawled, then you walked... you grew so huge that you blocked out the sun/ Then you go and you plant my head in your jaws"). That and "Waking Up" pick up the tempo at the center of the record, but love and loss loom heavy over the majority of the songs, particularly the slower tracks.