LIVE SHOW: Rain Machine
Rain machine @ the echo sept 25th
Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio debuted his anticipated new solo project Rain Machine at the Echo in LA Friday. The Echo is a scenester’s local well, and Rain Machine continued to chip the paint off it’s charcoal walls with Kyp Malone’s steep hiccupping intonations and bristling world class coiffure. His voice is key to TV on the Radio’s sound; it got hard to differentiate between the two, and some of the songs flowed together consequentially.
The band featured bass, backup guitar, keyboard and backup vocals, with a heavy metal drummer. When Kyp took the stage solo, you could sense a little nervousness in his posture, the vocal quiver increased. He said, “I’ve been playing these songs for years, alone, so this is…”
As everyone fell quiet, like apocalyptic-awe quiet, his soulful messy blues got louder and louder, each register reaching higher and higher, his convulsions becoming more and more discordant, the people getting a little enlightened, and even more simplified.
