If you are into hazy guitars, soaked in reverbs and with an enhanced dreamy outlook, you’ll definitely love ‘Machines’. The track offers an intense, kaleidoscopic listening experience, featuring a stream of shimmering guitars, resonant and decadent vocals, and chaotic, vibrant drum grooves with a pronounced cymbal presence. Honestly, we do quite love it. It’s almost otherworldly, thanks to its hidden melancholia and potent escapism. It’s also rather relevant for contemporary culture, especially given its lyrical focus.
You see, ‘Machines’ seeks to pay homage to the little machines around us, all of those devices and gadgets that have become part of daily life. For Dallas-based outfit The Capsules, there’s also a keen personal component to that, as they put pen to paper after a long hiatus. The single celebrates their return, marking the culmination of an extensive and fruitful career that began more than two decades ago in Kansas City. Things change, of course. Yet, The Capsules are as good as they have ever been, here seen delving into darker dreampop territories and shoegaze tunnels.
What’s more, ‘Machines’ ships with a hypnotic music video, with the band “becoming pure crackling static, spiky, vaguely human-shaped white lines on a black background, a tangle of wire, a crushed schematic, a neural network, a visual expression of angular sound.” Overall, this is a welcome return for the American outfit.
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