I am still opening only about one out of two hundred music e-mails, but the ones I have managed to open and actually listen to have been very impressive. These two tracks from San Francisco’s Identical Homes’ new album Machine Made Moods are too wonderful not to want to share. I am also nuts about the fourth track, “Carl’s Lament,” which is really two songs in the same track.

The album title perfectly describes the electronica-on-acid, floating-on-air ambiance of songs that slowly melt onto skittering beats. Hypnotic, like the sonic equivalent of a lava lamp. Think: Boy In Static, the Notwist, and San Diego outfit The Album Leaf–and Pinback, not necessarily a band you would group with the others, but here the influence is clear.

All 42 minutes of Machine Made Moods were written, played, recorded and mastered by Daniel McKenzie (flopped on the rocky beach above), who is also a member of The Rum Diary and Shuteye Unison and plays bass for Built For the Sea.

From Machine Made Moods:

Identical Homes - Worn Identical Homes - Bones and Marrow

MySpace | Label: 500 Records
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Filed under: album review, Daniel McKenzie, Identical Homes

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