The Dutch
band, the Machine is back with their 5th studio album and it is a
fantastic record with a lot of diverse elements to it and plenty of intense
guitar and a lot of instrumental music. I have been pretty blown away by this
one. The opening track will remind you of Earthless with the super intense
guitar soloing. Wow. Dry end starts slowly and bluesy with a nice wah solo and
then the intensity of the riff that has been played slowly just gets massive
and the guitar solo more intense as David really goes for it. This is really David’s
baby as he recorded, mixed, mastered and produced the record! Anyway the tracks
ends slowly just as it began. Next up is Dry End and sounds just like QOTSA,
nearly a cover song, if I did not know better. The guitar sound gets a bit
heavier but the way it is sung and played. The vibe is 100% QOTSA… Coda Sun starts off with a high tempo and a
sort of an eastern vibe until the vocal kicks in and a lot of different dynamics and changes happen
in the track. Very cool song and great bass and drums on this one. Gamma really
get reminded of the hardest edge Nirvana sound the way the vocal and the guitar
riff work. The vocal is mixed a bit low on purpose on this track (I guess). Cool
double tracked guitar appears later. And the track goes into some really cool
spacey stuff. Off Course, brings the
Nirvana feel back again but they do it in their own very cool way. This track has some really intense wah guitar
with an additional delay on it so it makes it more spacey and psychedelic than
previous guitar solos. Come to Light is the 16min track and the highlight of
the record.. This one just blows me away, heavy, rocking, psychedelic, dynamic,
spaced out.. I first saw the Machine back at the Munich Swamp Room Happening
when they only had one album out and they blew me away.. Still going strong
today… Great band…
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