Kurtys Kidd – This Dirty Machine
Self-released / From The Strait PR – 2026
Rock, Alternative, Grunge
Rated: ***
This Dirty Machine, it rode in on a promo email sent by From The Strait PR, a straight shooting PR firm if ever there was one. The man behind it, Canadian artist/actor, Kurtys Kidd and part of the opening from that email stated: “This Dirty Machine comes from a time when I was in an emotionally tough place,” Kurtys says of the album. “I drove out to the desert one night and just stared up at the stars and contemplated my life, my place on this earth, and even the place of our existence in the universe. The album tells a story of the night and the process to get through it.” That all meant, we had to check it out!
And that quote resonates throughout the album, cause This Dirty Machine sounds exactly like that, like a lone rider crossing a midnight desert, guitars blazing behind him, dust in his wake, and nothing but an endless horizon waiting ahead. Kidd marries the grit and muscle of nineties alternative with a widescreen, cinematic atmosphere, swooping and big. Heavy riffs meet melancholic melodies and rough-edged vocals head on. Working man’s heavy, dirt on the boot.
Yet, that restless, road-worm quality is more pervasive. These songs feel part outlaw, part drifter and part stargazer, searching for something beyond the horizon and probably something his heart cannot name. Maybe its just the endless search for a place to call home, and if This Dirty Machine is anything, it is that, a home or a soundtrack for that search…
(Written by JK)
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