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. ~ Ned Raggett