The Machines: Everywhere

The Machines are (apparently) Random and 240V, two international travellers who first hooked up in Canada before reconvening in London via Baghdad and Cuba. Whatever their true origins (or whoever else is in the band) musically, they're a tight outfit specialising in electro-disco-punk-funk that harks back to the 80s while remaining firmly cemented in the present.

Debut single Everywhere is a case in point, its drum machines, guitar riffs, and walking bass-lines forming a soundbed over which they layer electro keyboard and a female vocalist whose pseudo-religious chant echoes 80s electro-poetess Anne Clarke. Catchy and original, it's a quality start that augers well for The Machines' future.

Everywhere is out now on Neon State.

Genre: Electro-disco-funk

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