Some songs seem to turn up in the time it takes to write them, flashes of inspiration that seem to arrive finished and ready to go. Others take longer. “Ally The Truth” certainly falls into the latter camp, but I would say that, as a song, it is more representative of how songwriting actually works. After all, Paul McCartney may say that he wrote “Yesterday” in mere minutes, but only because he had been playing music for ten years at that point. Similarly, this new one from Gravity Machine is so good because it has been crafted, refined, and developed over half a decade.
Pinning the band down, generically speaking, is a hard thing to do, even more so on “Ally The Truth,” a dense swirl of folk-infused alt rock and more ambient interludes, driving energy and delicate passages, a meeting point of old-school analog familiarity and forward-thinking digital deftness. At just over seven minutes, it has room to explore, develop, seek and search, change form, and regroup… all of which it does brilliantly. Don’t think about it, just let the song happen to you! This is music as an experience.
In places, it reminds me of the much-overlooked Tansads …the band that The Levelers could have been; sometimes it wanders the same realms as the Pink Floyd going folk vibe that defined Mostly Autumn, but mainly they are their own unique and unsecondguessable musical mix of artistry and adventure.
Gravity Machine can fit more interesting moves and moods, sounds and styles, ideas and intrigue into one song than many bands cover in their whole careers…and if nothing else, that’s fantastic value for money!
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