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From ‘OK Computer’ to ‘Screamadelica’ , history has shown that a band’ s third album is when shit starts to get real. When, after an introductory debut and a second that tests new waters, the particular alchemy of a group stamps its personality in ways that no other configuration of individuals can do when the outside voices have been tempered and all that’ s left is a perfect cocktail of confidence, skill and momentum. It’ s a theory that’ s been proven time and time again, and one that Newcastle trio Demob Happy are underlining with ‘Divine Machines’ a third album that harnesses their delicate tightrope of heaviness and melody, sweetness and riffs, and rides it up to the stratosphere. ‘You need almost insane levels of resilience and belief to be an artist, but we’ ve gone out and put in the work over the years, ‘ begins drummer Tom Armstrong as frontman and bassist Matthew Marcantonio affirms ‘This isn’ t music for pubs or bars anymore, they’ re grand songs for grand venues. It’ s backwards engineering. ‘ Indeed, since forming more than a decade ago back in hometown Newcastle, Demob Happy have earned every increasingly exciting career milestone through a combination of hard graft and gritty determination that would KO most bands. They’ ve gigged incessantly, building on the slowlyescalating interest from 2015 debut ‘Dream Soda’ and 2018′ s ‘Holy Doom’ , and transforming it into a second album campaign that saw them tour the USA four times alongside a UK support tour with Jack White and an EU stint with Royal Blood. In between all that, they’ ve continued to meticulously hone the inner workings of their practice, with Matthew finetuning his production chops to the point where they can take everything inhouse. Demob Happy Vinyl is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £25