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Machine Is My Animal

by City of Satellites

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BMX 03:56
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Control 03:58
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Skeletons 07:06
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Willje Sleep 03:46
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Sky Rider 06:07

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On Machine Is My Animal, City of Satellites deliver on the exceptional promise of their debut EP The Spook – and then some. This pristine album synthesizes ’80s pop aesthetics with ’00s production values to create a truly monumental sound. From the Eastern-influenced synth lines of superb opener ‘BMX’ to the crystalline drift of closer ‘Sky Rider’, Machine Is My Animal carries the listener through a glistening science fiction future, as viewed from a wistful child’s window.

On single ‘Stranger Than Fiction’, swirling synth sounds, Thomas Diakomichalis’ propulsive drumming and Jarrod Manuel’s pure vocal tones glide beautifully. Its aching melodies to the fore, the song taking heartrending turns before dissolving into the ether. ‘Skeletons’ glides and weaves like a hovercar over the course of seven levitating minutes, before the epic title track stomps across a dystopian future like a Transformer with a conscience, its robot heart bleeding as its surveys the devastation it has wrought. This balance between cold synthesized tones and a warm emotional heart creates a delicious balance throughout.

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released November 3, 2009

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City of Satellites Brooklyn, New York

City of Satellites’ hook-laden, cinematically-inspired music showcases an effortless and heavily seductive blend of acoustic, electronic and human sounds. Shimmering guitars and vaporous synthesizer tapestries, ice-laden drums and syrupy sweet, abstract vocal passages are whispered to the listener; intoxicating melodies and rhythms behaving like bridges throughout a beautiful cosmic playground. ... more

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