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Pressure Machine
Rock · 2021 · 11 tracks · 46m

Pressure Machine

A stark, acoustic-leaning concept album documenting small-town Utah life. Spoken testimonials and harmonica replace the band's typical neon-lit stadium anthems.

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Quiet acoustic departure

A quiet, documentary-style stillness replaces the band's usual stadium-sized ambition, turning the focus to a starkly rendered portrait of rural Utah. The music trades soaring electronic textures for the wooden resonance of acoustic guitars, harmonicas, and field recordings of local residents speaking between tracks. It is a patient, somber collection of character studies that captures the weathered realities of a small-town community with a hushed, literary intimacy.

Pressure Machine · vs · The Killers
Field Recordings+4.0σ

The production is built around field recordings than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks · 46m
01
West Hills (abridged)
5:08
02
Quiet Town (abridged)
4:17
03
Terrible Thing (abridged)
3:57
04
Cody (abridged)
3:37
05
Sleepwalker (abridged)
4:05
06
Runaway Horses (abridged)
3:24
07
In the Car Outside (abridged)
4:48
08
In Another Life (abridged)
3:14
09
Desperate Things (abridged)
5:21
10
Pressure Machine (abridged)
4:45
11
The Getting By (abridged)
3:49
Moments Worth Waiting For
01West Hills (abridged)The album's documentary framework is established immediately on 'West Hills (abridged)' as a spoken-word interview clip fades into a swelling, melancholic fiddle arrangement.
06Runaway Horses (abridged)Singer Phoebe Bridgers provides a delicate, acoustic-framed vocal harmony that softens the sparse, folk-leaning arrangement of 'Runaway Horses (abridged)'.
03Terrible Thing (abridged)A stark, fingerpicked acoustic guitar and a lonely harmonica line strip 'Terrible Thing (abridged)' down to a quiet, devastating narrative whisper.
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