Failure Machine – Elko EP
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| Failure Machine - Elko EP |
Release Date: Out Now
Here Ye, Here Ye! Gather round
good people for Failure Machine are back and they’ve come tooled up. The Reno
outfit have become a quartet and switched around duties but the soul and spirit
of rock’n’roll is still at the heart of everything they do. New EP ‘Elko’ gets
moving with ‘You & Me’ riding in on a horse made of urgent garage drums and
the kind of fuzzed up melody that you only normally hear creeping out of
rehearsal rooms. This is a dirty western love song which finds frontwoman Rachael
McElhiney in fine voice a la Beth Ditto but with more soul and less shriek. It’s
one hell of a strong start.
‘Shame’ continues with the fuzzed-up
theme and it’s those raw production qualities that make me love these guys even
more as they get all Alabama Shakes up in your grill. Now slide on over here
sugar and let’s slow things down a little. ‘So You Say’ is a late-night
Louisiana blues ballad full of love, heartache, betrayal and flickers of hope that
is the best use of a baritone sax I’ve heard since Morphine’s ‘Honey White’
first hit my ears back in 1995. The EP closes out with the garage-soul of ‘That’s
the Way (I Want It)’, a song designed to shake what your mamma gave you until
your wig falls off or you fall in love. The full package is what Failure
Machine have now so can we all stop fucking around and make them the biggest
band in the world now please? I’ve got the t-shirt and I just want everyone
else to get on board too.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/failuremachine/
Live Dates:
16th March – The HOL, Reno
22 March – Grem Fest
24th March – Treefort Music Festival, Boise
19th April – Grem Fest
Listen/Download Here: https://failuremachine.bandcamp.com/album/elko