The Spanish band The Rare Sound Machine released their first recording "Beauty Machines" (downloadable from their My Space site) an EP with six splendid pieces of instrumental progressive rock, powerful and determined, in which they don't beat around the bush and from beginning make it clear what they do: progressive hard-rock, with guitar always at front and clear references to bands like Dream Theater and Tool. With power chords and great solos, enough to let clear the technical soundness of Alvaro Diez and company, but avoiding cloying virtuosity, this guys from Madrid makes intense and dynamic music, maybe a little austere for progressive standards, that over 40 minutes gives no truce nor rest with songs like "Temazo", vigorous and sharp, "N", with metal and Tooleans flashes, or the masterful "Jorge's", dedicated to disastrous George W. Bush who "participate" with fragments of his extremists speeches. Besides being an excellent presentation and overwhelming sample of what The Rare Sound Machine can do, "Beauty Machines" is one of those progressive rock albums that, from time to time, assert the "rock" part to "progressive rock" label. -CORANNIEIT-
The Rare Sound Machine, Beauty Machines
TRSM-Indie, 2009
Links:
Official Site
My Space Site
