Eureka Machines – Everything: Power-Pop’s Turing Test for Your Emotional Core

Eureka Machines are keeping the serotonin cogs turning with their sixth studio album, ‘Everything’, and it’s everything a power pop record should be. Just as the Turing Test ascertains if technology can possess human cognition, Eureka Machines tests the human capacity to feel visceral emotion or whether you’ve left your soul out in the cold for too long. Kicking off with the scuzzy pop-punk chords in the title single, there’s an instant affirmation that the Leeds-based outfit succeeded in their mission to flood the studio with the energy they project on the stage. Winding a few euphoria-doused James Dean Bradfield-esque riffs into the mix, the opening track reaches the epitome of affecting. When the vocals come in as a clean, cutting juxtaposition to the cultivated spirals of rhythmic distortion, you’ll be torn between being emotionally ruined by the lyrics and subjugating yourself to the pulsating augmentations of pretence-less power pop. As the album progresses, it evidences singer-songwriter Chris Catalyst’s songwriting chops as he humbly demands emotional investment through the sheer authenticity of his charismatic candour. There are performers, and there are conduits of sonic expressionism and with the help of Wayne Insane (drums), Pete Human (bass, vox), and Davros (guitar, […] The post Eureka Machines – Everything: Power-Pop’s Turing Test for Your Emotional Core appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Eureka Machines are keeping the serotonin cogs turning with their sixth studio album, ‘Everything’, and it’s everything a power pop record should be. Just as the Turing Test ascertains if technology can possess human cognition, Eureka Machines tests the human capacity to feel visceral emotion or whether you’ve left your soul out in the cold for too long. Kicking off with the scuzzy pop-punk chords in the title single, there’s an instant affirmation that the Leeds-based outfit succeeded in their mission to flood the studio with the energy they project on the stage. Winding a few euphoria-doused James Dean Bradfield-esque riffs into the mix, the opening track reaches the epitome of affecting. When the vocals come in as a clean, cutting juxtaposition to the cultivated spirals of rhythmic distortion, you’ll be torn between being emotionally ruined by the lyrics and subjugating yourself to the pulsating augmentations of pretence-less power pop. As the album progresses, it evidences singer-songwriter Chris Catalyst’s songwriting chops as he humbly demands emotional investment through the sheer authenticity of his charismatic candour. There are performers, and there are conduits of sonic expressionism and with the help of Wayne Insane (drums), Pete Human (bass, vox), and Davros (guitar, […]

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