Without wishing to be the harbinger of death for some nascent “movement” but something a little bit interesting-keep-your-ear-to-the-floor keep-it-secret-keep-it-safe, is brewing along the Mersey, and thankfully the Coral have bought a house in Spain.
Having already attended to ‘Puzzle’, it is to the second of three that we now turn. To ‘Wave Machines’ who we had the pleasure of hearing in supplement to ‘Fanfarlo’ at the Social, last Monday night.
In equal parts we shall be glad at the rising quality of support acts in recent times. For Wave Machines brought with them a simple joy in the pleasures of paired down song-writing and cyclical beats.
A curious bunch to contain within a definition. Instantly recognisable and yet for unknown reasons.
Operating in a peculiar seam of music-making measures. Mixing Ok-Go contrived ‘wackiness’ with Radioheads penchant for electronic beats and clicks they are wonderfully impossible to pigeon-hole.
Stronger in song with a decent hair-cut it was tracks one and two on the all to brief set-list that hooked me in. One a down-beat reflection on generational apathy, the other a cut of spaced-out pop perfection.
This may just be a personal touch but for all the instrument-swapping genius of an Arcade Fire or a Broken Social Scene there are times when bands labouring to rotate their kit does not feel essential, as it does with those. Which isn’t to detract from the musical melange, it’s just, all things considered, the collective unit would be stronger without this complication.
But hey, for now, listen. And nurse your own critiques. There is much more to come from this band.
mp3s | Punk Spirit | The Greatest Escape We Ever Made
buy the hand made wave machines ep through their myspace.
