New Secret Machines

doesn't have their usual pep but as with the previous album, hopefully there are a few tracks good enough to justify it

It's out! https://secretmachines.bandcamp.com/album/awake-in-the-brain-chamber-2

Downloading now!

I promised Brandon I would keep my excitement about his new project going for at least two years, but that was in about 2015. Will this be psychedelic enough to stop me listening to the Shamen? Let's find out when the download finishes.

New one hits the spot.

It's a pleasant little album with some lovely, wistful tunes, but it doesn't have even a vestige of the ambition or the prog heroics that they brought before, which were a big part of why I liked them (obviously). I guess it serves its function nicely though and it's good to have them back; obviously they've been through some shit.

Yeah, I'm just glad to have new music that is not bad.

At least this way their s/t album really will be the ignored, underrated ugly duckling of their discography (while also having some really great stuff on it)

It's a pleasant little album with some lovely, wistful tunes, but it doesn't have even a vestige of the ambition or the prog heroics that they brought before, which were a big part of why I liked them (obviously). I guess it serves its function nicely though and it's good to have them back; obviously they've been through some shit.

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Sums up my reaction. First track had some real promise--sort of reminded me of more recent Ride (which is not a bad thing imo). Subsequent few tracks were good, not great, and nowhere near now here is nowhere. (say that last part five times fast) I didn't have a chance to hear the last few tracks yet.

I think it will take some time, and some more attention (while my attention is, at the moment, definitely elsewhere) because I was very underwhelmed by the S/T when I first listened, but in time grew to love its subtleties. So I am definitely expecting this one to grow on me, too.

A few weeks later, I can totally confirm that this album is very definitely a grower and is revealing more and more, each time I listen.

...aaaand back on tour - which I'll inevitably skip as all the dates are openers for Metric.

i love ten silver drops so much

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 11, 2018 6:39 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:11 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Huh, they had a new one out earlier this year, completely missed that.

Reading now that it was apparently the results of what was originally shelved back in 2010.

Much like a frantic movie about “unfinished business” or “the one that got away,” Secret Machines spent the past few years finally putting the finishing touches on what should have been their fourth LP. Long regarded as a lost album, The Moth, The Lizard and the Secret Machines was actually put on pause in 2010 and massaged in the aftermath of 2020’s return-to-form record Awake in the Brain Chamber.

This essentially makes it the missing link between that effort’s brash pop songs and 2008’s sorely overlooked self-titled LP. (The latter receives a long overdue digital reissue this fall — one that features a far more fitting tracklisting and robust final master from Slowdive drummer/like-minded solo musician Simon Scott).

never spent much time with the s/t and it's incredible???? obv there are posts in this thread recognizing how incredible it is

have been waiting for you to say this

'last believer, drop dead' such a sick deep cut from their catalogue. and that closer!