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Hold This Ghost

Musee Mecanique

Hold This Ghost

Debut release of downbeat orchestral alt.folk from the Portland duo

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6.7

Label
Souterrain Transmissions
UK Release date
15/02/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   God Is In The TV

    ...showcases a band who self-assuredly hang their sound on the peg of fragile introspection, driven by the lush vocals of frontman Micah Rawbin
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  2. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   The Fly

    A transporting dichotomy of comfort and desolation; a strange, sad dream from which one is reluctant to wake
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  4. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    Though their instrumental experimentalism is key to their overall sound, Musée Mécanique owe a great deal of their evocative power to Rabwin's emotive tenor
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  5. 7.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  6. 6.0 |   The Digital Fix

    It is the perfect, evocative companion piece to last year’s Bonfires on the Heath swansong from The Clientele and should appeal to the hopeless romantic in all of u
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  7. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    While Musée Mécanique may bear all the trappings of smart, stimulating and at times stunning alt-folk, Hold This Ghost feels like a work in progress
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  8. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Everything on Hold This Ghost sounds perfectly placed, but the effect, though pleasingly tuneful, occasionally lacks a pulse
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  9. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The ten songs held within seem to project an air of reluctance, a reluctance to commit, a reluctance to step on any toes, to really go any further than a polite sing song about how sad they are
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