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This is only the eighth album in the Japanese psychedelic combo Ghost’s 23-year existence. Such a leisurely release schedule has yielded records highly distinct from one another, as well as anyone else’s. While “In Stormy Nights” begins and ends with melancholy, mostly acoustic excursions, it also lives up to its name by unleashing some of the most turbulent music Ghost has ever made. “Hemicyclic Anthelion” is a roiling half-hour collage assembled from several concerts. Even more powerful are the following three songs, with their fiery guitar leads, distorted vocals, pounding percussion and smog-thick electronic textures.
