Small Time Monsters | The Dream Machine

Product Code: RDM4700A6UK

EAN: 0044003406254
Catalogue Code: RDM4700A6UK
Title: Small Time Monsters
Principle Contributor: The Dream Machine
Contributors: The Dream Machine
Genre: Rock/Pop, Rock
Produced by Label/Studio: Run On Records, 2024
Published by: Republic of Music, 12 Jul 2024
Format: Vinyl / 12" Album Coloured Vinyl (Limited Edition),
Media: 1 disc(s)

'Karloff green' coloured vinyl

£24.00

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Disc 1
1. Frankenstein - The Dream Machine
2. Cindy s Eyes - The Dream Machine
3. My Father s Son - The Dream Machine
4. Holding On - The Dream Machine
5. Cathedral - The Dream Machine
6. Tonight I ve Got Heaven in My Arms - The Dream Machine
7. Posters of You - The Dream Machine
8. Wind-up Bird - The Dream Machine
9. The Horse - The Dream Machine
10. Wolfman - The Dream Machine
11. Bring Back the Water - The Dream Machine

Cover Notes: 'Small Time Monsters', the second full-length album from The Dream Machine, released April 2024. If 2022's critically-acclaimed debut album 'Thank God! It's The Dream Machine' was their first and most wild child, then 'Small Time Monsters' is its refined younger sibling. The psychedelia, euphoric choruses, flashes of surf guitar and B-movie references are all there, amongst the familiar reflections of life in their beloved and faded seaside town of New Brighton, but this time the wilder elements are controlled, the songs packed into three-minute pocket symphonies. Lead single Frankenstein is an anthem for the sugar-rush generation, an infectious, rattling earworm that recalls everything from haunted rockabilly to the sun-drenched melodies of Blossoms. Elsewhere on the album, the pulsating surf-stomp of Cindy's Eyes, a small- town story of unrequited love, has a chorus to fill the most cavernous arena. Produced by The Coral's James Skelly, the album was partially recorded at The Dream Machine's rehearsal space, then stitched together in Skelly's Kempston Street Studios. There's a refined, more literary quality to singer and primary songwriter Zak McDonnell's lyrics; explorations of everyday life, teenage doom, B-movie monsters, family turmoil, and coming-of-age tales in the familiar backdrop of life in modern Britain. 'Small Time Monsters' is the sound of a band breaking free from the small town into the big world.

Extras: 'Karloff green' coloured vinyl

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