Greyscale is a new instrumental trio from Australia that specializes in expansive dronescapes that gracefully walk the line between moody melodicism and a more damaged noise space. At any time across the twelve tracks that comprise their debut long player, ?Cruel Machine,? ghosts of shoegazing memories past and post rock meanderings of more recent daze might flood the temporal lobe, but fear not, intrepid listener. Greyscale distills some of the finest aspects of the last 10 years of electronic sound sculpture and drone rock down into a highly accessible, loop driven soundtrack for a chaotic and evolving universe. It?s a world surveyed with depth and wonder as timid melodies are gently plucked amid wind-swept dunes and distorted radio transmissions. Ethereal pedal steel on some of tracks far surpasses expectations in Greyscale?s hands, but that doesn?t mean they?re not willing to dust off the saddle and hit the trails for a lonesome space cowboy lament, too. Invoking the ghost of Galaxie 500 (sans vocals), the wide open vistas of Scenic and the pure distorted wash of My Bloody Valentine, Greyscale proves entirely adept when it comes to merging the gulf between fluid songcraft and electronic meditation. 8/10 -- Lee Jackson (9 June, 2005)