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Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry

Review by Dom Gourlay

Like so many fledgling acts before them, Edinburgh's Meursault ooze ambition and poise in swathes, something which has led to an unbridled burden of expectation landing on their unsuspecting shoulders in dramatic fashion...»

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the band return with the follow-up set 'all creatures will make merry', and those looking to make an arcade fire comparison this time around had best look elsewhere. this is a record that erupts forth on 'crank resolutions' and 'new ruins' with an unlikely but searing fusion of pulsing machine beats and lo-fi folk that wouldn't feel out of place on a collection of ethnomusicologist alan lomax's famous field recordings. meursault, over the span of this album, strap the static hum of their machines to a structured, straightforward framework constructed out of materials taken from a traditional folk template, one that recalls the like-minded strums of their neighbours in the king creosote-led fence collective.
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