Many bands head into the future by grabbing every bit of emerging technology, embracing every studio gimmick, taking every digital shortcut, and constantly updating their music so it is constantly evolving. And while there is nothing wrong with a will to move with the times and make your life easier, you have to be careful that you don’t makeover your music beyond all recognition and risk alienating those who have supported you thus far.
The Capsules have always taken a more measured response to the path of progress. Of course, there is no point being a luddite and merely doing things the way that we always have, such approach would mean that we would still live in a world of folk minstrels and gregorian chant, and whilst they are machine people, the ones that they hold dear are more likely to be analog pedals, processors, amplifiers, and vintage musical instruments., you know, the ones that you can take apart and see what mechanics and machinatons lay within.
And the cool thing about their new single, the aptly titled “Machines,” is that it is not only a tribute to such, now increasingly niche, technologies, but it is music fashioned from said equipment’s sonic potential.
The result is a sound that is both wonderfully forward-thinking and nostalgically familiar, brilliantly off-beat compared with sonic fad and fashion, and trend-setting in its own way, current yet comfortable as dark, brooding basslines and clashing beats provide the platform for searing sub-gothic guitars and surprisingly lush and luminous vocals.
If much of the music made today is the result of musicians merely corralling digital sounds into new patterns, here we have the sound of mankind and machine working in unison, part post-punk past, part beating a path to an exciting new future.
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