Clare and the Reasons
Josh Mease
Clare and the Reasons
Musée Mécanique
Clare and the Reasons
Musee Mecanique in The Guardian!
That list of who plays what above should give you some idea of what Musee Mecanique sound like – they’re either going to be a band with a meticulous attention to detail and a desire to complement the organic with shades of the electronic, or a mellow mess. Whether through self-control or good taste, they veer more towards the former. Considering there are almost a dozen instruments being played variously by the five members, it’s all quite hushed and gentle, elegant and restrained. This becomes even more impressive when you learn that at a recent London gig, where two MM members featured in fellow Oregon singer-songwriter Laura Gibson’s band, one of them played the keyboard with one hand, the glockenspiel with the other, and the bass drum with his foot…