Album Reviews

Savannah’s Casket Girls are back with album number three, “The Night Machines”. If you have heard one of the trio’s previous releases, you know what to expect… sisters Phaedra and Elsa Greene drape sweet yet hypnotizing vocal harmonies over the haunting, dreamy synths provided by Ryan Graveface. They themselves describe it as ‘eerie pop’ and it’s a moniker that pretty much says it all. If that description has you scratching your head, don’t worry. Just check out opening track and single “24 Hours”. It’s the perfect introduction to Casket Girls’ sound.

Or think of a nightmare that is kinda creepy, but not scary enough to have you waking up screaming and bathed in sweat. They’ve definitely refined their sound since 2014’s “True Love Kills The Fairy Tale”. Tracks like the melancholic “Sixteen Forever” are so deliciously hazy, you just want to get wrapped up in the song. Hell, the same can be said for pretty much every song on here.

My only qualm with this album is that Casket Girls seem to be so intent on perfecting their sound, they seem to have dug themselves in a ditch and ended up with an album where it becomes increasingly hard to tell the songs apart. All of them work well enough on their own, but it’s not easy to sit through the entire album in one listen and not have your thoughts wandering off at some point.

Apparently “The Night Machines” also works as a concept album, built around a sci-fi story by Ryan Graveface. Every copy of the vinyl comes with one page from the story and fans are encouraged to share the pages and piece together the entire story. It might not be a bad idea to take in the album the same way. One song at a time.