"Ghost have been kicking around for well over a decade now, and in that time have released a slew of albums that have built them a good sized following for their psych-tinged constructions (that veer from folk to full on rock meltdown). Their last album was the dense Hypnotic Underworld, which seemed to cause some split opinions, with many raving about it while others were somewhat under-whelmed. In Stormy Nights will no doubt make for more split opinions, as it includes not only some of their best work to date, but some of their most over-indulgent as well. The album opens with "Motherly Bluster" and the spaced-out track finds singer Masaki Batoh adding subdued vocals over strummy acoustic guitar, flutes, and drones while Eastern percussion provides a skinny backbone. On the very next track, the group veer completely into leftfield, though, and it's "Hemicyclic Anthelion" that will have lots of people scratching their head. A whopping twenty-eight minute track, the piece (which takes up half the running length of the album) culls a slew of

"Ghost have been kicking around for well over a decade now, and in that time have released a slew of albums that have built them a good sized following for their psych-tinged constructions (that veer from folk to full on rock meltdown). Their last album was the dense Hypnotic Underworld, which seemed to cause some split opinions, with many raving about it while others were somewhat under-whelmed. In Stormy Nights will no doubt make for more split opinions, as it includes not only some of their best work to date, but some of their most over-indulgent as well. The album opens with "Motherly Bluster" and the spaced-out track finds singer Masaki Batoh adding subdued vocals over strummy acoustic guitar, flutes, and drones while Eastern percussion provides a skinny backbone. On the very next track, the group veer completely into leftfield, though, and it's "Hemicyclic Anthelion" that will have lots of people scratching their head. A whopping twenty-eight minute track, the piece..." www.almostcool.com