The members of Salt Lake City-based rock band Spirit Machines – vocalist Pepper Rose, guitarist Dave Crespo, bassist Sergio Marticorena, and drummer Mike Collins – are pleasantly surprised with the sales success of their debut album Feel Again, as well as with getting unexpected recognition for their mashup of two classic songs by two major influences.
Spirit Machines front woman Rose was raised by a professional Gospel bassist father. But citing everyone from the White Stripes to Black Sabbath as influences, her vocals and often-abstract lyrics about love and pain fall somewhere between Exene Cervenka and Patti Smith, though she’s decades younger than they are….
Read the rest of the interview at americansongwriter.com.
Hungry for more on Spirit Machines? We featured the their songs Piece, in our July 2020 SPW, and Echoing Sounds, in our October 6, 2020 SPW.
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