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Apr 27, 2011What doesn't make a direct hit on the hips and heart is, at the least, well constructed.
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Apr 7, 2011Unfortunately, over 10 tracks, the band's musical limitations become ever more obvious, with songs like Hold My Breath and Jam for Jerry rummaging through the same box of retro tricks to lessening effect.
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Apr 13, 2011Ultimately, the songwriting isn't quite weighty enough to sustain a full album. Worth a check if you're a previous fan.
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Apr 5, 2011This isn't happy-go-lucky music; these are sounds reserved for darkly tainted dance floors, where smiles aren't a part of the dress code.
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Apr 7, 2011Holy Ghost! may not be a game changer, but it's not redundant in an electro-pop scene increasingly dominated by progressive disco.
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Apr 12, 2011Holy Ghost! is an interesting album and much of the production is loving, well-crafted homage to some wonderfully overlooked disco genres.
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May 2, 2011Holy Ghost!'s self-titled debut puts me at a loss. There is no way to penetrate this album. It's dance music that exists entirely for its own disposal, either into your iTunes, your DJ set or your garbage can.
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Apr 12, 2011As a result, Holy Ghost! has created a classic pop album, albeit one dressed for dancing in hipster finery.
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Apr 11, 2011It's a competent disco celebration of an album, but Holy Ghost! will need to dig a little deeper into their souls and diversify their influences to make more of a mark in the long run.
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Apr 8, 2011Synth-heavy disco and boogie, sleek Italo and plenty of New Order course equally through their veins; the duo spin a heavily thumbed vinyl library into something largely fresh, and even coax '70s smoove-rocker Michael McDonald into guesting at the end.
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Apr 5, 2011As it turns out, Holy Ghost! haunts with more consistency under the sheets than on the dance floor.
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Apr 7, 2011As slippery and elusive as this album's thrills can be, they'll eventually fall into place, one track at a time.
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May 4, 2011As long as Holy Ghost! continue to cherry-pick the best moments of their particular strain of the musical past, they may just have a promising future.
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Q MagazineMay 18, 2011The only problem is that the duo never manage to execute a truly killer pop hook, resulting in a debut that breezes by in a pleasant but ultimately forgettable haze. [May 2011, p.116]
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Apr 26, 2011Holy Ghost!, a New York dance-pop duo with barbed hooks and a penchant for dramatics.
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Apr 22, 2011Hat-tips and insider references abound on Holy Ghost!, but what's communicated most strongly isn't, ultimately, the duo's abiding love for new wave and disco, or even the timelessness of the style, but rather the poverty of nostalgia as an aesthetic principle.
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Apr 20, 2011The group--mainly the keyboardist and singer Alex Frankel and the drummer Nick Millhiser, childhood friends from the Upper West Side--brings the same uncorked enthusiasm to its self-titled debut.
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Apr 4, 2011These guys are working within a fully-formed aesthetic; they've got hooks to spare and production out the wazoo, but right now, I'm just not feeling the soul.
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UncutApr 13, 2011It's one of the most straight-up enjoyable records they've put out in a long time. [May 2011, p.88]
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Under The RadarJun 8, 2011The '80s were a great decade. Holy Ghost! bring that back to us in our antithesis to the '80s' time. [May 2011, p.79]
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 13 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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