Time Out Chicago

Preview: Rain Machine

"Malone’s weird, warbly turbo-falsetto avoids hiding beneath the layers of lo-fi hiss, infectious power-chords and driving percussion. The harmonically rich, rhythmically jerky act teems with hypnotic vitriol, the Brooklynite’s alternately booming and evaporating voice a glaze applied over fragile plickety-plick banjo and brain-burrowing riffs."

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REVIEW: NINE INCH NAILS

"Cuts featuring aggressive machine-gun percussion, heavy synth and stentorian vocals blared to epilepsy-inducing strobe lights that were beautifully balanced by gloomy, dramatic numbers displaying Reznor's signature brutal whisper-scream style and deft, soaring piano solos. Reznor maintains his pop sensibility through it all, saving his brooding electro from drowning in nihilistic drones."

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