Earshot! Magazine, Oct. 2003, by Ryan Long

This opens with "No Caution" a dryly delivered bit of pop with a kind of suppressed gloom, brightened up with almost-xylophone-like keyboard plinks. It's impressive and catchy. "Midnight" changes the pace from catchy alt-pop to sparer, heart-rending stuff with harmonies. As beautiful as it is sad. "The View" picks up the pace again to a kind of folk-pop fusion with keyboards and woah-ohs and hey!s thrown in. Not quite as good as the previous two tracks.

After a little interlude is the stunning "Secret Affliction" which will have you humming along and addicted after only a few listens. The last track, "Chasing The Horizon" is a bouncy, somewhat peculiar finale with an odd vocal style. All in all this is a fantastic little EP. Not enough good things can be said about it. Quite an achievement for a band only formed in October of last year by two 22 year olds and a 21 year old from Victoria, B.C. Before forming Immaculate Machine they played in numerous diverse bands together, from punk to psychedelic to retro R&B and folk. And based on the sound of this EP it shows; it's damn hard to pin down their sound. Most of the songs have a folky quality, but more up-tempo, and fuller-sounding. Would sound very good in a set with Cat Power, Badly Drawn Boy and most especially The New Pornographers.

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