Stone Machine Electric – The Amazing Terror [2015; self-released]

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Excerpted from a series of recording sessions for a full album, the four tracks of this EP bob and weave through fuzzy feedback and gnashy riffs, with the guitar providing texture and the disarmingly active drumming controlling pace and punchiness.  Though the songs have an enjoyable energy, and the musicians bring some interesting expressiveness out of their instruments, the EP hits its end with so little build-up that it winds up hobbling the preceding material to an extent.