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The Bare Bones

by Paper Machine Music

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1.
Trajectory 04:00
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2.
Fear & Loathing 04:44
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3.
Long Hot Summer 05:13
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4.
Ode to VS 03:40
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5.
Towers 03:28
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6.
Landslide 04:58
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7.
Sharktooth 04:32
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8.
Relentless 04:29
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Hold a Grudge 04:45
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10.
The Last Hippies 07:15
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about

4 years on from their debut they are back with their heads a little bit more screwed!
If the first album 'Glimpse' was the sound of middle age acceptance then 'The Bare Bones' is the realisation that you don't know everything and the world will bite you in the ass if you're not paying attention.
Rob McKinlay (ex-Viva Stereo) is still doing the music thing and widening his collaborative net. Now with a band in tow the tunes are a little more organic but he's also been embracing his 2000's XTRMNTR-electro roots.

Influenced this time by The Beta Band, early Verve, a trawl through some classic 70's rock, The Tragically Hip and Neil Young by way of Soundgarden it points to someone digging out their fuzz pedals.
You've got to go back to move forward...

credits

released May 23, 2023

Paper Machine Music is Rob McKinlay.
All songs written by R. McKinlay except 'Hold A Grudge' R.McKinlay / G.Brown
and 'The Last Hippies' R.McKinlay / P.Tierney.
All songs recorded and engineered by Rob McKinlay @ Footfall Studios, Fort William except
cello on 'Ode To VS', 'Relentless' and 'Hold A Grudge' recorded @ the 'Broons Hoose', Larbert.
Additional recording of 'Fear & Loathing' and 'Landslide' @ the Other Living Room, Fyvie.
All songs produced and mixed by Derek O'Neill @ IDES Studios, Blantyre.
All songs mastered by Pete Maher @ Pete Maher Mastering.

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Paper Machine Music Fort William, UK

Paper Machine Music rose from the ashes of Glasgow band Viva Stereo.
The outpourings of an addled mind that has been steeped for too long in Pavement, Spiritualized, Beta Band, Tim Buckley and Parquet Courts records.

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