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David Smith : Fastest Machine
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A wonderfully understated debut,combining emotional vocals and lyrics with atmospheric production.
Genre: Rock: Modern Rock
Release Date: 2004
Fastest Machine Record Label: Are You Listening
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Cheap Seats 3:59 $0.99
Crush and Flow 3:16 $0.99
fastest machine 4:07 $0.99
construct 4:16 $0.99
Hopelessly Misunderstood 2:42 $0.99
Losing Ground 4:07 $0.99
No Concern 2:33 $0.99
Signal 3:35 $0.99
From You to Me 2:28 $0.99
Just a Phase 3:06 $0.99
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Album Notes

Rarely does an artist capture the human condition with such honesty and clarity of insight.
A beautifully realised vision,stark and melancholic but ultimately hopeful.
The cd was recorded with musician/ producer Simon Widdowson who has worked with other artists such as The Decemberists and Pete Krebs.

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REVIEWS

author: Matthew Baines
Great songs backed up by a great, atmospheric production. Highly recommended.
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Wow!Very Impressive!
author: george bennett
Smith seems to fit into a simliar category with Joe Henry,Lisa Germano,early"E"(pre-Eels)Nick Drake and Elliot Smith.Beautifully flowing chord structures of acoustic guitar,drums and bass,textured wonderfully with various atmospheric background sounds.David Smith is a major new talent bettering most of the new troubadors by leaps and bounds.
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I couldn't pull myself away from this music.It's powerful.
author: jennifer layton
Complex,seductive,and unlike anything I've heard before.
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Something very strange, and interesting.
author: Stuart Hamilton aka Zeitgeist
I’m not entirely sure what was going on here? David Smith seems to have taken his parents record collection, crushed it up, then put in a blender with some modern alternative rock, and then poured out something very strange, and interesting. One for fans of the seventies, its 35 minute running time is a major attraction for the vinyl lovers of the past. Hippy lyrics, some ethereal moments, some progtastic moments (think Colin Blunstone sung Alan Parsons Project tracks), allied to some melodic hooks, and there you have it – “Fastest Machine”. Some will you have thinking he’s of the same ilk as the overrated Nick Drake and Elliot Smiths of this world – or, rather, the next, but there is a depth to his writing, missing from such so-called luminaries. Granted, the subject matter covers a lot of the same bases – poor me, nobody understands me, boo hoo – but he somehow manages on songs like “Crush & Flow” and “Construct” to avoid the nerdish trap others fall into.
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