The Rain Machine discussed here is neither snake-oil nor cash money precipitation, but rather the debut album from Kyp Malone, singer and guitarist of TV on the Radio. Over the last six years, many words have been used to capture the Brooklyn-based band: experimental, dark, moody, art-rock, hipster. But TV on the Radio can best be described as lyrically honest, musically defiant, and generally courageous. A large part of that comes from Malone, who has helped shape the group’s brilliant, singular sound, and raw, emotive lyricism as one of its primary songwriters.

Malone is driven by a bare curiosity of the world and a fundamental need to make sense of it all, and the observations and understanding of that information around him that seed his music and words, sometimes self-consciously, will feel familiar to those fans of TV On The Radio (not to mention, his distorted, ranging falsetto). But Rain Machine also stretches beyond the usual palette Malone has ever used before, weaving together everything from jazz-fusion to achy blues to afro-beat in its expression. Malone describes Rain Machine as a “nearly full spectrum of frequencies audible to the human ear, a reflection of a variety of emotions and situations real and imagined. Some rhythm, some rhyme.”

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