As singer, guitarist and hirsute professor in superb Brooklyn art-rockers TV on the Radio, Kyp Malone's solo album (as Rain Machine) should be a landmark release. But Malone – never a bundle of laughs – is revealed here as an artist more seriously tormented, and tormenting, than even his bleakest TV moments suggest. Songs like "Give Blood" and "New Last Name" lull listeners in, only to subject them to half an album of deeply dyspeptic and troubling eight-minute songs. "Love Won't Save You" especially lacks the joy in anger and all-important groove that make his day band so rewarding.