Just like the man says below; Pink Floyd, Spiritualized and buckets of Kraut Rock. A pinch of Joy Division thrown in for good measure.
What say you, Chris Roberts from Uncut Magazine?
Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
Four StarsWe raved about their eclectic mini album a year ago, and now Secret Machines - the Curtis brothers plus drummer Josh Garza, relocated from Dallas to New York - have honed their tight, tingly sound to produce a more direct yet equally powerful rock beast.
In short, it's like John Bonham playing with Can, or Floyd-meet-Spiritualized with a barely repressed pop consciousness.
Awkwardly funny, they're not averse to nine-minute epics (the suspenseful opener First Wave Intact, or the closing title track) but manage to fuse garage meatiness with stadium-spraying scale.
It's alla about the riffs, which insistently seduce and bully you until you're leaping around your living room like a Kiss fan with a brain.
Potent postmodern blues.
Postmodern? Whatever that is. Potent blues, anyway.
AGB Rating - Distinction
I've listened to Spiritualized and having them named in the same sentence as Pink Floyd is a deffo no-no. They are weird beyond belief.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 10 December 2004 at 05:01
Can't agree, Brett. I like Spiritualized. And there's certainly a little of their sound on the album. Not as much as Floyd and Neu, though.
Posted by: Tony.T | 10 December 2004 at 15:47