Anatomy of the Heads – Unholy Spirits Light Divine
Somewhere between the gamelan-haunted fever dreams of their earlier work and whatever unholy compulsion drove Michael van Gore to construct an electric violin from raw components in what one imagines was a sweat-damp Jakarta workshop, Anatomy of the Heads have produced something genuinely, stubbornly difficult to dismiss. *Unholy Spirits Light Divine* is a record that should not work. It is the product of musicians deliberately playing instruments they cannot fully master, operating within a conceptual framework so deliriously specific — Southeast Asian vampires making a pilgrimage to Romania to inflict what the band cheerfully terms "Eastern cruelty" upon unsuspecting peasants — that it risks collapsing entirely under the weight of its own mythology. It does not collapse. It broods. It lurks. It occasionally makes the hairs on the back of your neck perform duties they did not volunteer for.