I haven’t travelled enough in my life to know what makes an airport beautiful (the album’s title translates to “Beautiful like an airport”), but I have listened to enough demanding music to say that Beau comme un aéroport is a beautiful record. Percussionist Michel F Côté is back with his most “musique actuelle”-like project Mecha Fixes Clock, which consists this time around of Philippe Lauzier, Pierre-Yves Martel, Elwood Epps, Jean René, Guillaume Dostaler, and Bernard Falaise — a nice blend of household names and young go-getters. The album consists in a suite of short pieces offering an excellent example of what Québécois “musique actuelle” has matured into: shapeshifting, finely-crafted and subtle music with a buoyant, playful side. Refined compositions blurring the lines between fixed notation and improvisation. Music that will keep you asking for more.