Spectral Worship

Spectral Worship is a studio album by the indie rock band Guv'ner, released in 1998 on Merge Records. The album contains a cover of "Jealous Guy", by John Lennon, re-titled "Jealous Girl".

Critical reception
The Washington Post thought that "singer-guitarist Charles Gansa, bassist-singer Pumpkin Wentzel and drummer Danny Tunick don't demolish traditional song form, but they do like to beat it up a bit." Philadelphia City Paper called the album "a charming swirl of their cheeky, off-key melodicisms and experimental tweeks and wonks ... Even bassist Pumpkin Wentzel's conceptually ill-conceived cover of John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy' works with a little chutzpah." NME concluded that the album "chews on exactly the same pop bubblegum as their previous releases with a nerdy hook here, a quirky instrument there (castanets, Moog, Spanish guitars, etc) but, unlike 1996’s The Hunt, it chooses to hide its considerable light under a bushel of obscurity."

AllMusic wrote that "the album is a frequently brilliant combination of acoustic guitars, assorted tone waves and other varied sounds, drawing them together into minimal but highly dynamic and well-constructed pieces in a beautifully rustic, desolate ballad style."

Track listing

 * 1) "Spectral Worship"
 * 2) "Chereza"
 * 3) "Love the Lamp"
 * 4) "Wounded Birds and Vampires own the Edge"
 * 5) "Anaphelact"
 * 6) "Coozwax"
 * 7) "Jealous Girl" (Lennon)
 * 8) "Time Rarely Stand Still"  [ sic]
 * 9) "Anything"
 * 10) "Difficulty in Openness"
 * 11) "Someone Else"
 * 12) "Spectral Workshop"
 * 13) "Welcome"

Instrumentation and Personnel

 * Charles Gansa (guitar, vocals)
 * Pumpkin Wentzel (bass, vocals)
 * Danny Tunick (drums, marimba)
 * Cindy Greene (whistling)
 * Nicky Furnace (backing vocals, handclaps)
 * So Yong Kim (tongue claps)
 * Michael Rohatyn (vocals)