Machines Dream irons out the kinks

A few ghosts haunted Machines Dream.Craig West, frontman of the Sault Ste. Marie-based progressive rock band, wanted to fine-tune the group’s first two studio albums – a self-titled debut from 2012 and 2014’s Immunity.His concerns ranged from issuing the first album on a CD-R to how Ken Coulter’s drums were recorded on the second album.“Generally they sounded like crap,” is West’s take on the experience of recording Coulter in a new studio. The drum soun