Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night

AMG Review of Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night

Ned Raggett
All Music Guide

While the On duo consists of Steven Hess and Sylvain Chaveau, for Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night the personnel was a trio, as Helge Sten (aka Deathprod) remixed its contents before formal release. The resultant effort is one of the more compelling, darkly beautiful drone/ambient releases of the early 21st century, at once a textural, almost sensuous sprawl of sound and a moody, minimal flow. Some song titles capture that feeling perfectly, like "Too Many Demons Still Haunt This Land," but others are more suggestive -- thus "Erotique," where a rumbling distant rhythm, almost a racing cascade of pulses, is subsumed under a steady moan of sound, chilling the more aggressive edge bubbling below. "Façade," meanwhile, sounds like a slow wave of a metallic rumble on an endless factory floor, deceptively quiet but never without the feeling of uneasy threat.