Activating The Secret Machines
Shadowy NYC space rockers The Secret Machines slink into the light on Music:Response, hear them play live and find out where they've come from, and what they want...
Hailing from Dallas - but having made the eminently sensible move to NYC shortly after recording their self-financed debut - The Secret Machines are a band more than prepared to suffer for their art. Their months spent in a freezing NYC apartment without enough cash to run the heating may be a particularly American kind of dues to be paying, but dues they are.
With their debut album proper - 'Now Here Is Nowhere' - causing lovers of epic grandiosity to collapse in paroxysms of delight throughout the northern hemisphere, brothers Ben and Brandon Curtis and sticksman Josh Garza came by Music: Response to discuss hard living in NYC, their debt to eccentric soundsman Jeff Blenkinsopp and bucking trends. [listen]
The Secret Machines 'Sad & Lonely'
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Like a dark, sinister Spiritualized The Secret Machines deal in subtle atmospherics - the song's barely noticeable as it slowly assembles itself, until suddenly it's all around you, Ben and Brandon's ragged harmonies circling like buzzards.
The Secret Machines 'Nowhere Again'
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Pacier, more urgent than their first offering this is no less sinister. The kind of track you'd find on a vampire's i-Pod.
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