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“If you’re a fan of subtle, elegant, yet fully modern folk-pop, you’ll enjoy Hold This Ghost, the fine debut from Oregon’s Musée Mécanique
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Metroland
“An artisanal blend of electronica and old-time instruments, with a whiff of hurdy-gurdy”
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7x7
“Like the French duo Air, Musée Mécanique creates far-reaching songs out of a host of disparate instruments”
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Willamette Week
“Few recent releases approach the textural and musically detailed devotion of Musée Mécanique's debut long-player, Hold This Ghost…masterfully assembled like a musical ship-in-a-bottle via thrift store instruments, castaway equipment, and just about anything else the band could get their hands on”
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Portland Mercury
“A smooth puree of the epically sweeping soundscapes of Pink Floyd and the catchier acid-indie sensibilities of the Flaming Lips”
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LA City Beat
“Some songs are so moving, so imagistic, that they beg to be put in films. Such is the case with almost every tune on Hold This Ghost, the stirring debut from Portland, Oregon’s Musée Mécanique.”
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Soundcheck Magazine
“an impressionistic work of art… infinitely more interesting than standard-issue indie rock”
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Portland Tribune
“Hold This Ghost," dances eerily around the senses, arriving here and there at cinematic build ups, gospel reprises, and forlorn lullabies”
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The Spokesman Review
“Rabwin sings with the wispy confidence and intimacy of Stars’ Torquil Campbell”
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MetroMix
“An album for the ages”
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Oregonian
“Hypnotically compelling”
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San Francisco Guardian
“Elegant, expressive,”
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Washington Times
“A layered, delicate take on folk, meticulously arranged with an ear for atmosphere and texture, with surprises unfolding every moment.”
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XLR8R
“They shine quiet wonder through an eerie nostalgic lens of quivering saws and keyboards, all the while providing Sufjan Stevens with formidable competition in the "Best Baroque Folksters" category.”
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Michael Harkin, San Francisco Guardian
“Keen ears will detect a sonic similarity to the historic pop of Beirut or Neutral Milk Hotel, a compliment that, in this writer's opinion, is one of the highest a band can receive, and one that Musee Mecanique deserves.”
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Jeff Echert, Inlander
“The lush-sounding quintet crafts drifting, fog-buoyed songs full of hushed melancholy and a love of cinema. The group's recent EP, "Now You Are An Airplane," recalls the shy, cascading psychedelia of Beach House--only with a lot more warmth and aching tenderness.”
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The Onion
“Micah Rabwin and Sean Ogilvie aim to bring back that fascination through music that expresses the allure of the mechanical- a child-like curiosity with the intricate, the delicate, and the bizarrely beautiful. Or, as they put it "An old fascination for the romantic quality of technology”
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Jeff Echert, Inlander
“WHAT'S FRENCH FOR "AWESOME"? "Musee Mecanique, who bring with them subtly hanuting melodic turns, inventive orchestration, one acordian, a lap steel, two glockenspiels, seven keyboards, and of course, a musical saw."”
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Jenny Montana, Seven Days
“...beautiful, complex, thoughtful, memorable and full of "everything right where it should be" decisions”
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Jim Withington, Portland Mercury
“Portland's Musee Mecanique weaves together pretty, at times ominous, electro-folk music that nods to sgt. Pepper's gentler moments.”
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L Magazine
“These boys have a way of looking back into the past while focusing on the hope of the future, and translating that beautifully complicated concept perfectly into haunting music that almost sounds happily sad.”
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Portland Mercury
“(like) New York City's Collyer brothers- rich, eccentric siblings, whose obsessive hoarding during the 1040s colored a very strange existence... but rather than rummage, score and hide, they happily share their treasures with the world.”
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SLC Weekly
“Exploring a mysteriously unsettling blend of music-box folk-experimental, Musee mecanique is composed of Micah Rabwin and Sean Ogilvie on organic instruments and live electronics, but they've called on a plethora of players to record studio parts on mostly old world instruments.”
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Isamu Jordan, Spokane 7
“a po-mo indie psych carnival”
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Daniel Stainkamp, LA City Beat
“a trippy carousel of alternative western, straight-ahead indie rock, neo-psychedelia and classical sauce”
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Daniel Stainkamp, LA City Beat
“a solid album evoking witching-hour creeping through abandoned fairgrounds”
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Daniel Stainkamp, LA City Beat
“As evinced on their debut disc, "Hold This Ghost,"Micah Rabwin, Sean Ogilvie and their ever-evolving band are capable of evoking wistful romances and small moments of anguish with wise instrumentation and an astute restraint that give their songs a haunting quility.”
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Robert Ham, The Oregonian
