Spiral Key "Perfect Machine"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock / Metal
Release date: May 11, 2013
Tracklist: 
 1. At Sixes and Sevens 6:10
  2. Colder Than Heaven 6:41
  3. Love Is...                  7:10
  4. I, Pt. 1 & 2                10:51
  5. Eyes Open Wide 4:30
  6. People Are People 5:08
  7. Words Are Never Enough 5:48

Line-up: 
David McCabe - Vocals, guitars, keyboards, programming
Ken Wynne - Bass, vocals, keyboards, programming

Description/Reviews: 

The music is complex, visceral, dark, brooding and cerebral with serious technical ability. It is self styled music for grown-ups that uses crushing, angular cadences and riffs, polyrthyms and dynamics of tempo and volume.
The album consists of 7 tracks and kicks off with At Sixes and Sevens. A crunching bass and guitar intro followed by a cool synth vibe and we are away and running. The pace of the track slackens and the vocals kick in, overlaying the crashing guitar riff, a nice start to the album. Complex but accessible, my only bug bear, and it is a recurrent theme throughout the album is that the vocals struggle in the higher range, sounding like a live performance rather  than recorded in the studio. There is a great synth run towards the end of the track, the whole song having an industrial vibe to it. A good start to the album but things really kick off with the second track, Colder Than Heaven. A delightful piano and guitar intro followed by a low key vocal  which overlay a mellow synth vibe give this song a seriously 80’s style with hints of Ultravox, Ultravox with a seriously heavy guitar thrown in I might say, I feel like I should be having my hair fall down over one eye and be wearing pixie boots here.

Read the full review by Martin Hutchinson at ladyobscure.com

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