Genre:  Experimental / Drone Ambient / Trip Hop

01 Stitched In
02 Swansfire
03 Blue Lens
04 Black Cord
05 His Mighty Hurricane Machine
06 Miasma
07 The New Old Pitch
08 Staccato
09 Fractures
10 Plaque Sins
11 Covered Earth
12 Subtle Burn

Bobcrane...  What can really be said about this mysterious project?  Well, unfortunately for them, there really isn't much.  While fairly professional packaged, there isn't much information to be found on the band, and even more strange, there is even less information to be found on the label that released this album.  The cool thing though is that while I sat here staring at this release for the past few months not wanting to put it in for fear that it would be horrible (Forgive me for my reasoning and closed-mindedness, but I truely thought for some reason this would be some sort of horrible indie rock), I now realize I was a complete moron  A fool to be thrown to the lions for his false presumptions.

"His Mighty Hurricane Machine" is actually a very unique experimental album, utilizing the same old tools but in a different way.  Bobcrane goes in the direction of instrumental rock ambient, guitar-driven and filled with tripped-out drum beats/loops.  This is almost like Fear Falls Burning meets Portishead, but with a much more hi-fi sound.  The music seems to meet, instrumentally, dead center between these two wonderfully high-class acts, utilizing the high-quality guitar ambient drones of Fear Falls Burning, while still keeping with the trip hop/electronic atmosphere of the likes of several trip hop artists.  Comparisons really are hard to come by in mind, but one thing is for sure:  This music is GOOD.

The atmospheres here are strangely inhuman while retaining a rather sad state of being.  It leaves a strange sensation in my system as I listen through, as it implies, to me, somewhat of a depressive machine.  A cold iron-plated heart that knows no emotion but sadness and its own desolation.  This is a very unique record, and very well packaged.  It's hard not to get hooked on a release like this with such new and fresh sounds.  Check it out