Machinedrum Human Energy 01/20/2023

Machinedrum Human Energy 01/20/2023With Human Energy, Travis Stewart (aka Machinedrum) has made a career dening album, one which will take him from best keptsecret of the electronic music cognoscenti to breakout star of the US music scene. Written between January and April 2016, the record reects a period of great change in my life. I moved across the country to a new city, I proposed to the girl of my dreams, I moved into a new house, bought a brand new computer and set off to write a

but also immerses itself in indie and post-rock elements with ambient delays

and its music is the closest to the ideal form of the band's sound: Kessler's guitar swings between prodding

most were both

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Other highlights include the fuel-injected "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" (featuring Timbaland behind the board)

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Having delved into the work of early-Krautrock and 70s synth bands while on tour the previous year

experimental and ambient tracks and remixes

a strobe-lit snapshot

in which Rihanna leads a band of homicidal women

The Old King of Witches is a Records & LPs from Old Tower

Simple musical motifs quickly deform into charges of odd harmony and tangled polyrhythms