Description
Small Time Monsters, the second fulllength album from The Dream Machine, is set to be released this July on Run On Records Modern Sky.If 2022s criticallyacclaimed debut album Thank God Its 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 Bmovie 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 threeminute pocket symphonies.Lead single Frankenstein is an anthem for the sugarrush generation, an infectious, rattling earworm that recalls everything from haunted rockabilly to the sundrenched melodies of Blossoms. Elsewhere on the album, the pulsating surfstomp of Cindys Eyes, a smalltown story of unrequited love, has a chorus to fill the most cavernous arena.Produced by The Corals James Skelly, the album was partially recorded at The Dream Machines rehearsal space, then stitched together in Skellys Kempston Street Studios. Theres a refined, more literary quality to singer and primary songwriter Zak McDonnells lyrics explorations of everyday life, teenage doom, Bmovie monsters, family turmoil, and comingofage 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.
