New song from Rain Machine: Smiling Black Faces
While the 1st song revealed off the album “Give Blood” (which I meant to post but forgot) was a fuzzed out garage rock workout, the 2nd to debut, “Smiling Black Faces” is a soulful & building piece of gospel infused guitar rock with Malone offering up some truly remarkable lyrical imagery, referencing “bodies strung like tanning hides” & the headline-grabbing murder of Sean Bell by off-duty New York police. Malone says the freedom of writing on his own allowed him to venture further.
- “If I’m writing with a group of people or another person, even if I wrote the song, I know it may be attributed to someone else,” he says. “It’s reflective of something more than yourself, so I may touch on something more politely. But there’s a different freedom that comes with doing something by yourself, and I think this album reflects that.”
Known as singer & guitarist for celebrated genre defying band TV on the Radio, with Rain Machine, Malone has constructed an album of musically adventuresome and affecting songs. Malone played nearly all the instruments on Rain Machine and the record was produced by Ian Brennan (Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Jonathan Richman, Lucinda Williams). The album is set to be released September 21st on Anti-.
“Smiling Black Faces” | download
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“Give Blood” | download
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