The American duo Summer Bowman and Roger Fracé have recently released their fourth studio album. With Shadow Puppets, The Machine in the Garden have without a doubt produced a very strong piece of music. The electronical darkwave of these two is on this cd very much in balance. Even so much in balance that I find it hard to think of something not right about it.
Well ok then, the first song on the album doesn’t really draw my attention and might better have been placed somewhere else on the cd if you ask me. For that reason I keep listening the album from the second song “The inside world” that does attract me. The thick slow beat beneath it and the dragging guitars seem to hypnotize in combination with the clear voice of Summer. Sometimes she sings lightly as a feather, other times passionate, heavy and pressing, but always beautiful to listen to. Songs like “Winter fell” and “Mother” strike by their dreamy undertone that make it all sound very ambient. “Suspend” has a special construction that starts out really easy going and slowly gets more sturdy towards the end. Almost al songs sound both electronically as well as very spiritual. There is a sort of atmosphere around of ethereal sounds that enables you to let yourself go and fantasize.
Simply a beautiful cd, one that is very recommendable.
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