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GHOST - In Stormy Nights
| PrefixMag |
| My heart should know better, but it's gone and fallen in love again. And with a really difficult companion this time. I mean really difficult. Who is it? It's noise rock. With last year's great releases by Comets on Fire and Charalambides and now the new album from Japanese psych powerhouse Ghost, the genre is really getting its hooks in me. It would be so much more logical to love the simpler, catchier sounds of, say, the Shins. But, no: Damn ticker's gotta be difficult....full text |
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| StylusMagazine |
| In the grand scheme of things, Bands That Wouldn’t Sound Out of Place at a Renaissance Faire probably end up pretty low on the totem pole of rock ’n’ roll daydreams, be they of Lester Bangs, Chuck Berry, or Jon Bon Jovi (Jimmy Page, as usual, excepted)....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Masaki Batoh has been leading Ghost since 1984 - out from their subterranean, psychedelic headquarters in a disused Tokyo subway station, as legend would have it - making wild, flighty experimental rock with leanings towards far-out folk. It's all there on this aptly titled 19th album. Centrepiece track Hemicyclic Anthelion is given over to pure improv - a full 28 minutes of fractious, abstract sound-war that is only intermittently compelling....full text |
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