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Giants, Madmen, and Ghosts/ Abandoned Children

by Secret Message Machine

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Insomnia 03:10
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Giants 02:22
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Leatherwing 02:52
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Dead Man I 01:39
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Dear Firefly 02:45
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Ghosts 03:47
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Madmen 02:00
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Black Waves 01:28
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Electric Eel 01:54
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Disembodied 01:08
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I Control 00:19
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Southern Son 02:31
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about

USR #10
Secret Message Machine is one of those unfortunate bands that somehow fell through the cracks of the massively overcrowded music world. Where most bands of the 2000's tend to narrow (a little too far) down to a specific genre, or feel the need to always go to extremes, SMM's approach hit me like a breath of fresh air cutting through all the bullshit spewing from countless venues and websites.
SMM is hard to pin a label on, it's poppy, but not too poppy…it's experimental, but these songs are solid and structured…the lyrics are brainy, but never pretentious…it can get melancholy, but never maudlin...it seems like everything is just right. Granted this didn't hit me the first time I heard this album, but with every following listen it unfurled into something I hadn't exactly expected. Pop is not a genre I'm drawn to, and this isn't really "pop," but this album (and the others from SMM…more on that later) stands aside, if not above, any other pop I've heard in a really long time, and unlike almost all pop this only seems to get better with age.
I could gush on much further, but I urge you to just listen and listen and listen and listen…..

tracks 1-11
Giants, Madmen, and Ghosts

tracks 12-24
Abandoned Children (an unreleased album of out-takes from Giants, Madmen, and Ghosts)

tracks 25-26
taken from "Hungry Villains EP"

credits

released February 10, 2015

all songs written (except 9 & 23), performed, and recorded by Michael Barrett, 2008.

Newer sounds from Michael:
blindmonk.bandcamp.com

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Uuhngreh Schpuggenuh Records Baltimore, Maryland

a now defunct label that was created for the non and anti-professionals, weirdos and outsiders. Perfectionism has no place here.

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