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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 26, 2011Holy Ghost!, a New York dance-pop duo with barbed hooks and a penchant for dramatics.
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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 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 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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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 5, 2011As it turns out, Holy Ghost! haunts with more consistency under the sheets than on the dance floor.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Oct 23, 2011