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Rain Machine is an introspective album that rings more of Malone's earlier influences than of boundary pushing inventiveness--but that's not a bad thing.
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Rain Machine doesn’t have TVOTR’s Berlin Wall of Sound might, but it’s still an accomplished work.
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Rain Machine gives Malone an appealingly mellow yet resolutely independent identity for his solo music; even if it may not be for fans of his other projects' more accessible material, it's nice to hear a full album of what he can do on his own.
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There are moments when the album loses its focus and blurs into extended jamming that doesn’t go anywhere particularly exciting, although Malone mostly manages to keep those tendencies in check.
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FilterThere's an ardent emotionlism here that would make Otis Redding seem calm in comparison. [Fall 2009, p.106]
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Half of it’s as good as anything TVOTR have ever done.