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PRESS
Seattle Sound Magazine - 08/08
The Stranger - 07/08
The Fader - 04/08
Time Machine is See Me River's second full-length, and comes on with a relaxed sensuality, inviting the listener into its communal tribe-songs, until the dark vibes of tracks like "Don't Pray For Blood" or "What I've Done" compel you to play it more and more.
"Everybody could use one," bourbon-baritone vocalist Kerry Zettel says of the album's title. "I can't recall how many times I've woken to vaguely recall the evening before and thought to myself, 'Fuck …'" It makes sense to the listener as moody, doomed songs of remorse and vengeance unroll, sparsely and elegantly played by Zettel (who long-fronted Seattle quartet Das Llamas), along with Joe Arnone (Charming Snakes, Band of Horses, Weirdlords), Tosten Larsen (Thorstone), Kellie Payne (New Luck Toy, Charming Snakes) and fellow ex-Llama Aaron Everett.
Recorded and produced by Nick Dewitt (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Night Canopy, Dutch Dub), Time Machine incorporates instruments varying from organ, autoharp, and glockenspiel, alongside sounds from cheese graters to an actual shotgun blast. See Me River creates a multilayered landscape, subtle yet gripping, with phonic guitars forming the backdrop to strong vocal harmonies.
Time Machine is a dual release from two much-buzzed labels, Zettel's own label Aviation Records with Don't Stop Believin' Records (The Pharmacy, Team Gina, The Dead Science), that shows the independent fire of the best new Seattle music. Its ten tracks cover everything from wisdom learned during incarceration, car wreck lifestyles, getting drunk and lost, and winding up back in rehab. They're the kind of songs you want to sing while, or instead of, doing those things.
Words on See Me River:
"A mesmerizing musical experience."
- Album of the Month, August '08, Seattle Sound Magazine
"The more conventionally pretty arrangements act as a counterpoint to Zettel's haunted baritone... and the effect is perfect."
- Eric Grandy, The Stranger
"…loping and catchy and we've been listening to it nonstop for the last couple days: in our chairs, in our homes, on the train, forever clapping along."
- The Fader blog
