New Release: Stone Machine Electric
Stone Machine Electric - "Faces": When the Desert Whispers Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGtbhVlPha8
Texas doesn’t just have stoner rock: it exhales it, slow and thick like heat off asphalt at noon. And for 16 years, Stone Machine Electric have been the state’s most compelling sonic mirage, blending doom’s weight with jazz’s restless sprawl into what they call "Doom Jazz." A bold claim? Maybe. But listen to Faces, out September 26th via Argonauta Records and tell me it doesn’t sound like three men channeling the ghost of Miles Davis through a wall of Sleep riffs.
This isn’t just another trip into the cosmic void (though there’s plenty of that). Faces is the sound of a band leaning into the abyss not to scream into it, but to listen. Six tracks of hypnotic, slow-burning heaviness, where Mark Kitchens’ guitar coils like smoke, Dub Irvin’s drums pulse like a desert heartbeat, and newcomer Erick Paxecko’s bass anchors the chaos with a monk’s patience. "Just Another Wizard" slithers in like a Morricone soundtrack for a peyote vision; "Manic" (all 9+ minutes of it) is the kind of jam that makes you wonder if the band or the song is more stoned.
They’ve shared stages with King Buffalo, Wo Fat, Jucifer bands who know a thing or two about groove as a spiritual practice and Faces feels like the culmination of those lessons. Less a "progression" than a deepening: the same obsidian riffs, but now with the space to breathe, to mutate. The live energy of Vivere (2021) is here, but distilled, more deliberate, more dangerous.
And yes, the limited vinyl will sell out fast, because the kind of fans who get this band don’t just stream albums. They worship them.
If The Inexplicable Vibrations... was the sound of Stone Machine Electric mapping the cosmos, Faces is them burning the map. Not every band can make doom feel this alive.
PS: If you’ve ever stared at a highway at 3 AM and wondered what the static between radio stations was trying to tell you, this album’s your Rosetta Stone.
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