Beaten by Them's fifth release (third full-length album) from the San Francisco/Melbourne/New York quintet, Kinder Machines could be one of the finest sounding records you will ever hear, Building on the college radio chart-topping successes of last year's thumping Invisible Origins and ethereal follow-up People Start Listening.
The ensemble's latest offering sucks the listener in from the first booming kick, never letting go over a joyous ride that was recorded live on a farm in the wine-producing region of Sonoma, California, The album is an invigorating collage of acoustic instruments and multi-layered rhythms that puts melody in the forefront, combining powerhouse drumming and percussion, intense bass and electronic layers, soaring cello and trumpet lines, ever-present keyboards and hypnotic acoustic guitar mantras, Kinder Machines is a triumphant musical statement that blurs musical boundaries, reaffirming Beaten by Them's critical standing as one of modern music's most exciting, creative and surprising groups.
Engineered and mixed by Grammy-winning engineer Oz Fritz, best known for his work on Mule Variations and other Tom Waits albums (Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, The Ramones), the album describes itself as a "High dynamic range recording: tracked, mixed and mastered entirely in analog domain", Kinder Machines sounds huge and is a must-hear album from one of modern music's most exciting, creative and surprising genre-twisting groups.
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Presented in a beautiful individually first edition hardcover digibook package, Includes 16 page digibook designed by Angelo Kanaris, This numbered, limited edition will never be reproduced using the same art design ever.
