Ten Silver Drops

Today's Music That Kind Of Worries Jason is Ten Silver Drops, by The Secret Machines. This album is pretty good, I guess; its greatest fault is that it follows TSM's wonderful debut album, Now Here is Nowhere. TSD has some good songs, nothing too poppy, they're all definitely Secret Machines songs, but it's hard to say that anything really stands out in my mind. The last two songs are ballads, and don't really seem all that great. I do like the length of the songs on this album, and the fact that they aren't too self-aware, but these just seem to be more run-of-the-mill indie arena rock songs. They're maybe a little too polished and pretty. Some of the joy of was that the songs weren't that hard to predict, but the timing was wonderful; that is, the energetic choruses were always there but the build wasn't diagrammed every time. I don't know, exactly. Whereas NHiN seemed to draw on elements of U2, Pink Floyd, and The Who, TSN seems to be an updated Rush album. Not the gloriously nerdy and technically proficient Rush of the 1970s, no, more along the lines of the synth-driven rock anthem Rush of the 1980's. Not bad, but perhaps content.

In other news:
I haven't purchased any music for a while, and I'm getting itchy. There are Okkervil River albums out there just dying to be listened to, dammit!