Ten Silver Drops

TEN SILVER DROPS finds New York City's Secret Machines concentrating their epic, expansive energy and sound into tighter, more melodic structures. This, their sophomore album, still features the fuzz and the solos and the thundering drums, but rather than scattering infectious riffs throughout their spacey jams, as they did on their debut NOWHERE IS NOW HERE, the band provide the hooks with a more central place in the songs here. They avoid extremes of dynamics for a more consistent sound, and while the tracks are still longish by anyone else's standards, for the Machines, this album is less prog and more pop.