"We've experienced a deconstruction of our personal lives. Coming home to a familiar setting and being alien to it created a sense of isolation," says Secret Machines' frontman Brandon Curtis.

This feeling of detachment is unsurprising, given the early days of the band's career when they lived far from their Dallas homeland in a one-room apartment in Brooklyn. They had three beds at one end and their rehearsal space at the other and it wasn't long before they were off on an 18-month tour.

It's these memories which drives Ten Silver Drops, their second album. The record is soaring and uplifting, despite its lyrical themes - musically, it's a swirling landscape of brooding beats, hypnotic guitars and soulful piano - or space-rock, as they like to call it.

"I think it's a story of collective alienation and preadolescent paranoia," Brandon says, "but it's also a set of love songs. There's kind of an energy and a power to it."

Fans of Spiritualized, Brian Eno and Neil Young, the Machines give nods to blues, uptempo rock and pop.

"It definitely has as much of a poppy feel as anything we've ever done," Brandon says. "There's also some accordion on a track which features Garth Hudson.

"We invited him down and after a few run-throughs with a few instruments he settled down and was able to contribute to the vibe and kinda take us back to school.

"He showed us what it meant to be a real rock 'n' roll musician - on the accordion, which is a rare thing these days."

The Machines are a rock 'n' roll band that manage to appeal to a dance crowd, having even played at London's clubbing mecca Fabric. Their idea of a live performance is to provide a "linear experience", going from beginning to end without noticeable breaks between tracks.

"The whole point about going to a dance club is that you want to kind of lose yourself for a while. And that's what we try to do with our performance," Brandon says.

The early days sharing one room must seem long-gone - over the last two years alone they've played Glastonbury, supported Oasis at Milton Keynes Bowl and opened for U2 on their Vertigo tour.

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