At Home With Kyp Malone of Rain Machine
- story Matthew Schnipper
We’re mighty familiar with Kyp Malone, having written a feature about his solo music and a cover story about his main gig, TV On The Radio. Still, longtime enamor or not, we were surprised with how much we liked his solo debut as Rain Machine. Malone’s voice sounds like an heirloom, passed down generation by generation. It rings as a truly organic record, accented with bells and loose strings. We recently went by Malone’s Greenpoint apartment to sit with him and discover Rain Machine’s environmental footprint.
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posted on Oct 12, 2009 in FADER TV, MUSIC CHANNEL, MUSIC INTERVIEWS SHOW tags Kyp Malone, Rain Machine, rock, TV on the Radio
Rain Machine, “Smiling Black Faces” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Jason Nocito (F37)
A cursory glance through the FADER archives shows that we’ve been following the solitary escapades of TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone (and also posting that giant picture of his face constantly)—from his early days as a solo artist to this new work as Rain Machine. Often when an artist in a pretty popular and awesome band turns to solo work it feels like a cast-off project, a way to spend some time in between group albums, but with Malone it feels different. Maybe it’s the way he lets his voice shoot into a fractured falsetto so quickly, or maybe it’s that in the last couple minutes of this song handclaps show up out of nowhere, sounding organic enough that it is entirely plausible that some dude just rolled in off the street to add his own rhythm section.
Download: Rain Machine, “Smiling Black Faces” (via Stereogum)
