This will doubtless appeal to fans of Interpol, Editors and White Lies: where the latter are concerned, it’s not just the music but the production that shows a strong influence on this release. The chiming, interweaving guitars wrap themselves around a solid, driving bass and deceptively danceable beat, but there’s nothing brittle about the sound, which is dense and solid. Even when they do soar skyward as on the dreamy ‘Persistent Suitor’. But if skygazing and dreampop connote insipid, wet or limp, then The Machine Room blast these into oblivion, urgency and edgy undercurrents bubbling through the polished surface.
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