Do John and Michelle Nolan think too much? Straylight Run's sibling front-people - both sing, write, and play guitar and piano, ably enabled in their musical ruminations by bassist Shaun Cooper and drummer Will Noon - don't seem like eggheads; but there's no doubting the intelligent design of their gloriously adventurous off-kilter pop and the existential underpinnings of their lyrics.

I Am Ghost - the revered Long Beach, California-based dark rock sextet - will release its debut full-length album through Epitaph on October 10, 2006. Titled Lovers' Requiem, the follow up to the band's 2005 debut EP, We Are Always Searching, was produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette (Iggy Pop, Incubus, Chevelle, Cold).