Album Review

Family Machine – You Are The Family Machine

• 10th Mar 2008

March 2008 sees Alcopop’s most recent signing Family Machine release their debut album You Are The Family Machine.

Their album is an eclectic mix of pop, ballads and indie tunes. There isn’t one word or sound that could sum up the whole of the album, each song is so different and takes the album in a different way when each track is played. That could actually go both ways, with the album being a diverse mix of songs, it could appeal to a wider audience or to none at all with it not finding it’s true demographic.

Let’s take the first track for example, Ko Tao has a seventies vibe to is, quite reminiscent of a T-Rex track, whereas track two, Did You Leave, is the complete opposite; a Robbie Williams inspired ballad, or that’s what it seems to be, and then there is Flowers By the Roadside which really reflects Badly Drawn Boy, (who did actually work on the album).

Whatever your flavour, You Are The Family Machine is definitely worth a listen to, there is bound to be something on there that you like.