Never underestimate the importance of an album’s title. Coming up with a good one can often be the most grueling part of the entire process. Sure, an artist can get away with the occasional self-titled project, but more often than not you need a catchy moniker that sticks in a listener’s brain—but not something so wild that it’s the only thing they’ll remember (we’re looking at you, “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water”).
Dorothy Martin, frontwoman of hard rock band Dorothy, may not have gone totally left field for her third studio album, but she certainly found her title in an unexpected place. “I was having coffee at my hotel in Brooklyn and the phrase ‘gifts from the Holy Ghost’ popped into my head and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s
