MACHINE! FIRE! GHOST!

Machine! Fire! Ghost! is a 4-track, instrumental EP, and is apparently this Norwegian outfit's first release. Much of the music here, as well as on Any Day Now is impressionistic, and free of obvious structure. Most of the melodies are created with guitars, although there is some violin in the first song, "Jan Mayen Skyline." (Jan Mayen is an island belonging to Norway which had some importance in World War II, and whose major feature is a volcano that erupted as recently as 1985. I looked that up, by the way, on Wikipedia. From what I can tell, the island is basically uninhabited, so I don't think it has a skyline in the ordinary sense of the term.) While they're sonically different from "Jan Mayen Skyline," the latter two songs, "Untitled" and "ik+," are also evocative, exploratory, and unconstrained.

The exception, at least to some degree, is the EP's second song, "We Lined Up and Ate Fire," which has a jazzier feel and something closer to a verse-chorus structure.

Machine! Fire! Ghost! is not outlandishly great; at times it seems to be wandering - - not aimless, but perhaps disoriented. But I still consider it a "good" recording, and one worthy of three stars.

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