Album Of The Week: "Machinery Of Night" ( Darktown)

One of Ireland's best avant-garde rock bands, Darktown emerged relatively unsullied from the mire of Irish psychedelic music as experimenters with outer space concepts. Every trick from the 'Big Book Of 60s Psychedelia' is there. Band made up of Declan Drohan (vocals,guitar), Donal Adams(guitar, keyboard, beats, backing vocals), Adam Burthom (bass guitar, backing vocals) and John Daly (guitar,effects) recorded a real work of art.

Darktown's debut album is more like a single extended piece rather than, a collection of songs for me. They created a fantastic style capable of sustaning their dazzling and potentially overwhelming sonic wizardry.

'Machinery Of Night' isn't a pleasant album, nor is it a simplistic or banal album. It is brutal, cynical and disturbing, but it has moments of flesh-tingling beauty. Whole record is full of textural and conceptual richness.Their music really suprises. It's so diverse, intensive and interesting that it does not only invites, but demands involvement.

In my personal opinion 'Machinery Of Night' is definitely in the group of albums that are proudly representing the pinnacle of rock music.

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