Darling Machine Record Release, Lesibu Grand, Hip To Death

CRITIC’S PICK: Darling Machine celebrate the release of their new LP, All The Lonely Come Around, with Lesibu Grand and Hip To Death joining them for the festivities. This second album from the reconstructed Atlanta quartet find the band furthering the sound explored on 2019’s Darling Machine, but with synthesizers aiding and abetting some of the guitar flourishes and goth-tinged vocals. They still rock, but with a more expansive sound. Indeed, Darling Machine offer anthemic songs that recall the best of the 60s, 70s, and 80s psychedelic, glam and heavy metal, but with a sound distinctly their own. The band rocks, rolls, and transports the listener to other music worlds yet to be fully explored. Like the band live, play this record LOUD. — Tony Paris