The Capsules have re-emerged from their extended silence with "Machines," a single that feels like walking into a dimly lit corridor where history, machinery, and feeling all vibrate at precisely the same frequency. The band's revival comes with a noticeably sharp point, one enfolded in atmospheric alt-rock sounds that pivot between wistfulness and contemporary jarring.
"Machines" gradually establishes its world like encroaching fog. The Capsules' predominantly synth-driven ambiance remains, but now it is more distorted, more void of energy, each echoing moment passing through static. The darkwave is murky and encompassing, the tones whipping in a cyclone rather than collaborating, only happy to sit beneath the covering. It's a melody that doesn't need to yell to be uneasy. "Machines" demonstrates the spooky closeness of that gap, or territory, spanning from neighbor to unseen enemy in one breath.
"Machines" explores the widening divide between humans and the increasingly machines. There's an implicit disease to the closeness, the metal globe teeters only alongside our thoughtful and emotional planes. The appealing thing is how thoroughly The Capsules have thrown themselves into this transition. The music rings deeper, nastier, but not in a way that repels attractiveness. Instead, the attractiveness is in the cigarette fugue, the blinding shine of the synth beat, the thoughtful misery, even the comfort of unease.
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