You are here: Home > Uncategorized > #230 Secret Machines – Alone, Jealous And Stoned
Looking For Hugs?
Recent
-
Streamadelica
When it comes to listening to digital music iTunes remains the dominant player, not because it offers a particularly brilliant service (it offers a particularly […]
-
The Books – Beautiful People
I’ve taken this line directly from the Books record label Temporary Residence ‘the deluxe 2xLP format comes packaged with 36 full-color die-cut stickers for you […]
-
Fascinator – Summer Dream
Partly chosen because summer has become somewhat of a dream of late, especially in light of the hailstone showers earlier. Mostly chosen though for being […]
-
Thumpers – Sound of Screams
A bit like the Go! Team if they were slowed down and put back together with the misfiring parts given a brand new role ‘Sound […]
-
AfterParty – Jungle Dreams
Not sure what stopped me from destroying this mp3 because on initial inspection it had a tad too much cheese to go the distance. Putting […]
-
Steel Band Procession – Yankees Gone
If this indie life hadn’t got me so young I would most probably have taken to setting up the very first Calypso music blog. I […]
-
Foxtails Brigade – The Unloved
Much like the gulf stream this track by Oakland band Foxtails Brigade warms up the atmosphere to a rather pleasing degree. Much hinges on Laura […]
-
Spotlight Kid – April
Spotlight Kid take from one of the best shoegaze acts that ever was (we’re talking Swervedriver) which makes what they do all the more palatable […]
#230 Secret Machines – Alone, Jealous And Stoned
Never took much notice of Secret Machines, ‘Nowhere Again’ from their last album was a nice distraction but the message was often lost in the hyperbole of the music. So as I unfurled the Uncut Playlist CD of last month I wasn’t expecting much from ‘Alone, Jealous and Stoned’. Sure enough it had a cute entrance made up of sparse spacey noises but nothing to suggest greatness. Over a few listens though the inventiveness appeared through the fog. Now, Brandon Curtis’ vocals sounded wounded as he replayed the break up of a long-term relationship, his brothers’ guitars chirped tunefully and John Garza’s drumming bellowed with untamed rage. Maybe it was the influence of recording way up high in the Catskills Mountains but you’ll have to travel far to match the rolling crescendo that appears in the final third of ‘Alone, Jealous and Stoned’. This is life-affirming stuff, proof positive that whatever prog means or stands for it certainly can produce moments of sonic euphoria like this. KD
Secret Machines – Alone, Jealous And StonedMore Info: Secret Machines
[US] Ten Silver Drops
Buy Album: [UK] Ten Silver Drops
Year: 2006
Get 50 FREE Music Downloads for your iPod® or any MP3 player!