Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

The Tangent – Not as good as the book
The Tangent are unashamedly Prog Rock as one could imagine with nods towards the likes of Pink Floyd, Yes and Rush. With some very nice jazzy edges, a few more modern electronica touches here and there too.

Nebelung – Vigil
Vigil is a highly polished and often tuneful collection of sombre, forest bound folk songs, that are striped down yet darkly passionate with most of the tracks consisting just of layered acoustic guitar playing, kettle drums and sombre, deep and dark melodic german vocals.

Shepherds – Loco Hills
The Shepherds are a band of Brooklynites who play Kosmische infused psychedelic extendo-jams. The band, like lots of bands these days, are made up of members of other bands, in this case three quarters of Meneguar and G. Lucas Crane, of the Vanishing Voice and Non-Horse. Loco Hills consists of four long tracks, which don’t veer too far from their parent band’s footprints, which is no big surprise. There are representations of Can-like bongos and tribal drums, blocky analog synth patterns and tons of semi-aimless noodling.