DREAM MACHINE, The - Fort Perch Rock - Vinyl (cloudy blue vinyl LP)
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The DREAM MACHINE
Fort Perch Rock
Modern Sky
cloudy blue vinyl LP Cat: MSK03 LPRRel: 2 Mar 26
Psychedelic/Garage Rock Side 1 - Track 1. Fort Perch Rock Side 1 - Track 2. Flowers On The Razorwire Side 1 - Track 3. Things That Makes Us Cry Side 1 - Track 4. Angel Heart Side 1 - Track 5. If I Could Be King Side 1 - Track 6. Duck Bone Forever Side 2 - Track 1. I Had A Friend Side 2 - Track 2. Joe Side 2 - Track 3. Julie On The Rocks Side 2 - Track 4. Night Owls Side 2 - Track 5. The First Bird Side 2 - Track 6. Best Days Of Our Lives
New Brighton rockers The Dream Machine are certainly not short of songs - there was a point when barely a week went by when there wasn't a new single, EP or song to discover. It was pretty hard to keep up with it all. Fort Perch Rock is the band's third album is a solid encapsulation of what the band does; slightly ragged guitar based beat rock. There's elements of The Beatles, Space and The Coral on display, which is not entirely surprising for a band hailing from the Wirral, who happen to be good friends with The Coral. Where they succeed is when they go off the rails a little, and transcend their local influences. The title track opens the album, and finds the band in fiery rock and roll mood it's the perfect start and really grabs the attention. The self-recorded/produced nature of the album gives it a distinctive edge that makes the album that sounds as if some of the songs were recorded live and in one take. It's somewhat reminiscent of the Brian Jonestown Massacre approach (as is their pace of song production). 'I Had A Friend' for example has a bootleg feel to it, with Zak McDonnell's tortured croon floating over a chaotic patchwork of guitar and organ that seems to have been beamed in from a different decade. 'Joe' possesses a similar aesthetic but is more contemplative in mood; the last song of the night in a smoky back street club.That's followed by the reverb-heavy 'Julie On the Rocks' which has elements of Spiritualized lurking beneath the surface. It's fair to say that The Dream Machine are quite content to change moods, as and when it suits them, which keeps thi album constantly interesting and makes the band quite hard to pin down. And that, ultimately, can only be a good thing.
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