Taking their name from a curious Californian music-box museum (and conceived in a marginally more prosaic setting, an antique arcade museum), Musée Mécanique’s sound is appropriately nuanced and intricate, with ticking percussion underpinning saw, organ, trumpets, bells and probably a whistle or two to boot. But while I’ve never had the pleasure of perusing such an establishment, I’d imagine that once the initial marvel subsides, all that clockwork can get a bit dull – another, less favourable trait the band occasionally share with their namesake. Everything on Hold This Ghost sounds perfectly placed, but the effect, though pleasingly tuneful, occasionally lacks a pulse - a mechanical amalgamation of Beirut, Mercury Rev and The Notwist’s offbeat symphonies rather than a living, breathing entity in its own right. But at its best there is an elegant beauty to Hold This Ghost’s dustiness, its vintage instrumentation and wistful atmosphere laced with borrowed nostalgia.
1. Like Home
2. Two Friends Like Us
3. The Propellors
4. The Things That I Know
5. Fits and Starts
6. Somehow Bound
7. Under Glass
8. Sleeping in Our Cloths
9. Nothing Glorious
10. Our Changing Skins
GENRE: Folk, Rock, Ambient
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