Not long after Nine Inch Nails hit the scene with \u201cHead Like A Hole\u201d in 1989, bands inspired by the industrial sound started popping up. Machines Of Loving Grace was one such band, with releases in 1991 and 1993 and then a more guitar-heavy album in 1995. This also turned out to be the end of their career and, it would seem, three of the four guys never worked in music again; only keyboardist Mike Fisher went on to work as a session musician and assistant producer for decades after.<\/p>\n
The band\u2019s only sort-of-not-really alternative hit was \u201cButterfly Wings,\u201d which blends a standard Depeche Mode-like industrial sound with a cool descending keyboard stutter and some pop smarts, and is the highlight of Concentration<\/i>. Much of the rest, though, is fairly generic industrial, a little light on the guitar (for this genre), but featuring songs that tend to stick with a beat and spoken-word vocals.<\/p>\n
Among the best entries are opener \u201cPerfect Tan (Bikini Atoll),\u201d the menacing \u201cIf I Should Explode\u201d and the rampaging \u201cAcceleration,\u201d all of which should have netted this band at least some sort of a following. But the rest of the songs don\u2019t really hit hard or have enough hooks; they may sound kinda cool, but they lack staying power and personality. If you don\u2019t like, say, the first 20 seconds of a song, you can skip it because the rest of the song sounds just like that; it\u2019s a very Sisters Of Mercy approach.<\/p>\n
NIN, Marilyn Manson, Ministry and others would go on to refine this sound to much better results later in the decade, leaving bands like Machines Of Loving Grace in the dust. Fans of the genre or little-heard \u201990s bands may want to check out \u201cAcceleration\u201d and \u201cButterfly Wings\u201d; from there, mileage will vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":34750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10845],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-46607","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-machines-of-loving-grace","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46607"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}