Brand new work from The Machine!
This is a more languid and spacey album than the last couple. I liked it right away, but it took a few listens to process.
It’s good. Deep, complex music with a lot of fuzz.

The Machine is a great band with an inconvenient name.
To start with, there’s a Pink Floyd cover band with the same name, and they get a lot more press than this old space sludge band. And then there’s the fact that google fukin sux now and looking up some words like “the machine” gets you a bunch of ticktok vids.

To make their publicity even worse, yt search won’t turn up The Machine’s channel. Took me a while to find that. Their label uploads vids and yt generated a channel. (I’ve linked to Rob Hammer’s channel for this post.)

The Machine do have a decent single-page website where you can listen to and purchase all their music.
https://themachineweb.com/

These guys have been recording for quite a while, first release 2007. Their 2009 release Solar Corona is one of my favorite albums, previously featured here.

Although David Eering (guitar vocals) says he thinks this album is an unintentional return to an older sound … I think this album sounds a great deal more like their old band buddies Sungrazer. (Sungrazer has been broken up many years now, and the surviving members did not join this band.)

The additional sound influences on this recording were new(-ish) drummer Klaas Dijkstra and the fact that it was recorded in Eering’s (still under construction at the time) Evolver Studio in Dordrecht.
They produced a nice video about recording. (I made a joke about Dutch here and annoyed a couple people, now deleted.) The video is cool, I’ve watched it a couple times. Very drum heavy, as the guitar amps are down the hall, and it sounds groovy.

THE MACHINE - Creation of Another Sun (Official Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fae6Oixn9Dc

No tour yet. The Machine’s website says:
“There are no upcoming events right now.”