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Opening for Pixies at Paramount: Rain Machine, project of Kyp Malone from TV on the Radio
Posted by Andrew Matson
Brooklyn man Kyp Malone's band Rain Machine is not as famous as his other band, TV on the Radio, but with songs as good as "Smiling Black Faces" one wonders why.
Is "Smiling Black Faces" not TV on the Radio done better? It's lift-every-voice triumph rock, fronted by throaty, wounded-sounding, multi-tracked vocals. TVotR's bread and butter. But unlike most of TVotR's last album "Dear Science," (2008) "Smiling Black Faces" does not forcefeed any world-music funk styles or come off cloying.
Rain Machine opens for Pixies tonight, Nov. 12 at The Paramount. My preview of that concert is here.
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