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By: Wilfred Brandt
Date: 23rd May 08
Release: Album
To Cure: A quiet weekend
What:
Everything Is Breaking
Who:
Silver City Highway
On:
A New Entity
MySpace:
Here
I'm not a melodramatic person. Really. But something about Silver City Highway's debut album Everything Is Breaking makes me wanna don a poncho and a cowboy hat, head out into the American desert with a machine gun, some peyote, a coyote, and a vest of bullets. Is that weird?
It must be the Melbourne seven piece's reverb drenched epic rock songs - part Nick Cave, part Ennio Morricone, akin to L.A. space rockers Spindrift. While the drama can get a little O.T.T at times, it's a stellar album that soars and dips, like a long night of tequila and acid.
With sweeping production, shining pedal steel, Rhodes organ, harmonica, and a ton of soul, it's the soundtrack to the melodrama of your life.