Many moons ago, when I was seriously into space rock, I remember buying The Secret Machines first album, Now Here is Nowhere. It was good enough, especially the opening track, "First Wave Intact," as well as "Light's On" and "Pharoah's Daughter", to earn my buying the second album, Ten Silver Drops.
I remember disliking it. The intensity of the original album was gone, replaced with overwrought vocals and grasps at some silver ring of respectability.
I guess, as we get older, respectability becomes less underrated. Because it came around on the MP3 player today and I kinda like it now. "Alone, Jealous and Stoned" has some thought behind it, as does "1,000 seconds." Brandon Kurtis' voice is still the raspy, range-bound thing it ever was, and I don't miss the lack of big-rock beats that characterized the first album. Oh, don't get me wrong, "First Wave Intact" is still the rockin'est thing they've done, but rockin' isn't the be-all and end-all of space rock. Thinkin' is.
I remember disliking it. The intensity of the original album was gone, replaced with overwrought vocals and grasps at some silver ring of respectability.
I guess, as we get older, respectability becomes less underrated. Because it came around on the MP3 player today and I kinda like it now. "Alone, Jealous and Stoned" has some thought behind it, as does "1,000 seconds." Brandon Kurtis' voice is still the raspy, range-bound thing it ever was, and I don't miss the lack of big-rock beats that characterized the first album. Oh, don't get me wrong, "First Wave Intact" is still the rockin'est thing they've done, but rockin' isn't the be-all and end-all of space rock. Thinkin' is.
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