The Secret Machines –Ten Silver Drops [Reprise -2006]

Some guy working for a Swedish paper compared them with The Mars Volta, and then I just wonder what kind of psychedelic drugs that guy had running in his system.

From what my ears tell me “Ten Silver Drops” is a very British sounding album. At times it sounds like David Bowie stucked in an elevartor with The Doves with its clear pop hooks. But when they start mixing it up with tasteless Grunge-riffing guitars, based on well used chords, spiced up with some neat keyboard sounds, I just wanna turn it off.

I want to give them credit for their will to create their own sound and rules. But as far as the song writing goes their way of experimenting with sounds is way better then the actual songs are.

The record contains 8 songs; at first sight it seems too few. But trust me it’s more than enough. Why they have support shows for U2 and get hyped everywhere is hard for me to understand.

This is a textbook example of overrated music. This is more about the money someone is putting in to their machine than the ability of their music.

Listen to some songs from: “Ten Silver Drops”