In Stormy Nights is the final studio album by the Japanese band Ghost. It was released by Drag City on January 23, 2007.
Track listing The CD and LP releases of the album have slightly different track listings.Ghost (2) – In Stormy Nights (Vinyl, LP, Album). Discogs. Retrieved 21 July 2011.Ghost (2) – In Stormy Nights (CD, Album). Discogs. Retrieved 21 July 2011. These are as follows:
CD track listing
LP track listing Side one "Hemicyclic Anthelion" Side two "Water Door Yellow Gate" "Gareki No Toshi" Side three "Caledonia" "Motherly Bluster" "Grisaille" Side four "Caledonia (Sing Together Mix)" (bonus track, 45 rpm)
Personnel The following people contributed to In Stormy Nights:In Stormy Nights - Credits. Allmusic. Retrieved 23 June 2011 Musicians Masaki Batoh – vocals, acoustic guitar, Springer Michio Kurihara – electric guitar Taishi Takizawa – saxophone, flute, vibraphone, etc. Kazuo Ogino – piano, analogue synthesizer, kaval, gaita, tenor recorder Takuyuki Moriya – contrabass Junzo Tateiwa – frame drums, cymbals, timpani, tabla, etc. Technical Taishi Takizawa – producer Satoru Fujii – recording, mixing, mastering Michiru Tawa – assistant engineer
Reception
In Stormy Nights has received mostly positive reviews from critics. The album currently has a 76 out of 100 rating on the review aggregate site Metacritic, which indicates "generally favorable reviews"."Ghost: In Stormy Nights (2007): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
Reviewer Matthew Murphy of Pitchfork Media gave the album an 8.0/10, writing "And though In Stormy Nights... can hardly be said to be a perfect work, one has to admire and celebrate Ghost's determination never to step in the same river twice."Murphy, Matthew. Album Reviews: In Stormy Nights . Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 12 May 2011 In another positive review, Allmusic's Thom Jurek called the album "A work of absolute beauty, chaos, seductive darkness and cosmic light."Jurek, Thom. [ In Stormy Nights - Ghost]. Allmusic. Retrieved 12 May 2011 Andrew Gaerig of Stylus Magazine gave the album a B+, writing that In Stormy Nights "is easily their most unhinged, aggressive record; they make a show of steamrolling their subtler instincts."Gaerig, Andrew. Ghost - In Stormy Nights . Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2011
Not all reviews were positive, though. Both Dusted Reviews' Matthew Wuethrich and Almost Cool's Aaron Coleman criticized the track "Hemicyclic Anthelion". Wuethrich called the track "bloated and forced", while Coleman wrote that the track "just completely derails what would otherwise be a fairly solid and concise album."Wuethrich, Matthew. Ghost - In Stormy Nights. Dusted Reviews. Retrieved 12 May 2011Coleman, Aaron. Ghost-In Stormy Nights . Almost Cool. Retrieved 12 May 2011 In another negative review, Slant Magazine's Jimmy Newlin criticized In Stormy Nights for its lack of warmth, writing "Maybe pastiche is inevitable, even in the Japanese avant garde scene, but can't it at least be a little more fun?"Newlin, Jimmy. Ghost: In Stormy Nights. Slant Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2011
References
External links In Stormy Nights at Metacritic In Stormy Nights at CD Universe