An ambitious but uninvolving change of pace for arty prog duo.
Artists should be commended for trying something new and bold, even if the results don’t fully work. Such is the case with Days Between Stations’ fourth album, Perpetual Motion Machines, which finds guitarist Sepand Samzadeh and keyboardist Oscar Fuentes Bills delivering a subdued score for a documentary about artist Jean-Paul Bourdier.
There are a few highlights strewn throughout, including carnivalesque opener Waltz For The Dead, mournful orchestral piece Seeds and new agetinged rocker Being (featuring the record’s sole vocal performance, courtesy of Durga McBroom). But much of the rest of the album is less interesting, with the initially intriguing electronic ambiance of Proof Of Life and meditative piano work of Unearth overstaying their welcome before the meandering Stone Faces…
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