Now POLL Is POLLwhere - Secret Machines "Now Here Is Nowhere" poll

iTunes tells me I've listened to The Leaves Are Gone the most, but I kinda wish I could vote for Nowhere Again -> The Road Leads Where It's Led as a whole segue.

Love this album and loved you recent rave post about it. Torn between First Wave, Nowhere and Road.

really great album yeah, and it works really well as a piece.

like, if we're gonna break it down, i can't not vote for First Wave Intact (which is one of the great album-openers of the modern age), but the whole is more than the sum of its parts

Haven't listened to this album in, oh, 10 years, but loved it at the time, and iirc loved the little nods to late-period Pink Floyd. I want to say I saw them open for Interpol and rock awesomely.

pharaoh's daughter -> you are chains is my favorite bit of this. voted pharaoh's daughter.

the drum sound on this record is really what sets it apart huh

Holy shit, yeah, it's totally the drum sounds that make it so unique and distinctive. Josh Garza uses an oversized kick drum (I need to dig out the interview again, but I think it might be one of those huge oversized bass drums they use for e.g. brass bands and stuff? Either way, it's much bigger than a standard rock kit.) and that is what gives them their truly unmistakable sound.

I could pretty much make a case for almost any of the tracks on this album. (OK, the only one that definitely *isn't* my favourite is Pharaoh's Daughter.) I mean, even the lyrics on this album are great, and I don't even listen to lyrics.

i bought this album in a Dealz shop for a euro last month

Or maybe I like Now Here Is Nowhere more than I like Nowhere Again. I don't know! They were rumoured to be two halves of the same song that got chopped in two because each was already about 9 minutes long.

Cultivating sounds
For all the mothers who come near
To find out
Calling pulse bombs a response

With cotton in their ears
And goodbye kisses
For the ones
In the ground

Collecting fallout from the blast

The road leads where it's led
And all the darlings cover Earth
With bare hands

They're blowing all the other kids away

Angels stole the show
The roaring seraph, singing thunder called
The mother's children home

Blowing all the other kids away
With all of your charm
Blowing all the other kids away

We communicate by semaphore
No language, we've got flags of our own

The road leads where it's led
And all the darlings cover Earth
With bare hands

They're blowing all the other kids away

Angels stole the show
The roaring seraph, singing thunder called
The mother's children home

Blowing all the other kids away
We won't be fooled
By all of your charm
Blowing all the other kids away
Uncertainty fails as heaven surrounds you
Blowing all the other kids away

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

such a great album

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

(Sorry, this isn't Suzy, it's Branwell, who has lost their ILX password, round Suzy's flat)

aw, this album is almost criminally underrated, but I'm pretty happy with the winner here, but I'm surprised The Road Leads Where It's Led didn't place higher. Decent spread of results, though.

happy 10th Birthday today, Now Here Is Nowhere!