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Go*Machine:
Look to The (EP)
Go*Machine is four people. Go*Machine is an Army. Imagine how Radiohead might sound if they came out of North Carolina and had a violinist. I wasnt sure what to think when I started listening to track one. It starts off with slow dialog samples and scratching records while a down-home country guitar gets into a hillbilly groove. Vocals enter, and you realize that this is a straightforward country song. When the fiddle joins in, you prepare for lyrics about the Devil going down to Georgia. Then, at the three minute mark, the music switches seamlessly into a disco bassline and drumbeat but the vocals and that crazy fiddle are still in full-tilt country mode. I went from thinking that this was going to suck to thinking that this was pure genius in just a few minutes. Go*Machine had to win me over, but once they did, I was sold. This album is headphone candy. Apparently all four members are multi-instrumentalists with studio engineering experience. This doesnt sound like four guys recording on their own. It sounds like a thirty-member musical collective in a state-of-the-art studio, pissing away a huge record advance and loving it. Go*Machine are obviously influenced by a lot of different styles of music. Its impossible to describe them without hyphens. Theyve got that violin. Theyve got stuttering electronic beats. Theyve got a group sing-a-long. They sound like an indie-rock band, then they sound like an electronic band, then they sound like a country band... They even start singing in a different language in the middle of Red Balloon, before switching back to English, and you hardly even notice thats how smooth the transition is. The point here is that they bring all this crazy stuff to the table stuff that shouldnt work, but somehow does and still make it sound heartfelt. This CD is over the 30 minute mark, which ought to classify it as an album. Then again, theres only six songs, which screams EP. I dont care what you want to call it. Its brilliant. Get this.
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