Album review: Immaculate Machines
Immaculate Machine
Fables
Label: Mint Records
Release date: July 9th 2007
Website: www.immaculatemachine.com
Rating: 4 out of 5
In recent years, Canada has proved to be a fertile spawning ground for quality alternative music: Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and The New Pornographers to name but a few. Add to this hallowed pantheon, Immaculate Machine. Formed in 2002, Immaculate Machine are three indie pop kids blessed with an ear for melody and a penchant for catchy hooks.
The album opens with Jarhand, a frenetic indie pop confection of joyous jangly guitars and the catchiest refrain you’ll hear this year; it's just summer in a bottle. Oh, and it also features special guest backing singers in the form of Alex 'Franz' Kapranos and The Cribs.
Dear Confessor's insistent drumbeats and repetitive refrain that "maps will show us where we’re going/ all they are is just the boring facts" will have you pogo-ing around with a great big smile on your face. Old Flame is The Long Blondes meets The Research meets Human League. At times overwrought, but bordering on the edge of electro-pop genius, it rises to a dramatic crescendo, bursting into a flaming Muse-esque tornado of guitars.
But it's not all fodder for the indie disco dancefloor; Roman Statues is an elegant and delicate concoction. Here, as on many of the other tracks, Brooke Gallupe, Kathryn Calder and Luke Lozlowski share vocal duties to great effect. The haunting Northeastern Wind is desolate and ravaging – four minutes and thirty-one seconds of raw sadness and naked longing. Listening to Blinding Light is literally like bathing in warm floods of white light – soothing and clean, like something holy.
Fables is the band’s third album, but is the first that they haven’t released independently. It's an intricate music box of an album, with songs that you'll instantly love and songs that will worm their way into your heart over time. Take a chance; Immaculate Machine are worth it.
Fables
Label: Mint Records
Release date: July 9th 2007
Website: www.immaculatemachine.com
Rating: 4 out of 5
In recent years, Canada has proved to be a fertile spawning ground for quality alternative music: Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and The New Pornographers to name but a few. Add to this hallowed pantheon, Immaculate Machine. Formed in 2002, Immaculate Machine are three indie pop kids blessed with an ear for melody and a penchant for catchy hooks.
The album opens with Jarhand, a frenetic indie pop confection of joyous jangly guitars and the catchiest refrain you’ll hear this year; it's just summer in a bottle. Oh, and it also features special guest backing singers in the form of Alex 'Franz' Kapranos and The Cribs.
Dear Confessor's insistent drumbeats and repetitive refrain that "maps will show us where we’re going/ all they are is just the boring facts" will have you pogo-ing around with a great big smile on your face. Old Flame is The Long Blondes meets The Research meets Human League. At times overwrought, but bordering on the edge of electro-pop genius, it rises to a dramatic crescendo, bursting into a flaming Muse-esque tornado of guitars.
But it's not all fodder for the indie disco dancefloor; Roman Statues is an elegant and delicate concoction. Here, as on many of the other tracks, Brooke Gallupe, Kathryn Calder and Luke Lozlowski share vocal duties to great effect. The haunting Northeastern Wind is desolate and ravaging – four minutes and thirty-one seconds of raw sadness and naked longing. Listening to Blinding Light is literally like bathing in warm floods of white light – soothing and clean, like something holy.
Fables is the band’s third album, but is the first that they haven’t released independently. It's an intricate music box of an album, with songs that you'll instantly love and songs that will worm their way into your heart over time. Take a chance; Immaculate Machine are worth it.
posted by YG&B at 1:38 PM
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