Working the Machine (Single)

by Sheeps

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NZ Art Rock band Sheeps have released their debut album ‘Working the Machine’ through AllGood Absolute Alternative Records in April 2024. The third single shares the album’s title, and is a broody masterclass in the art of the more-is-more approach to composition – concentrating the disenchantment of a forty-hour-work-week-for-fifty-years life into four-and-a-half minutes of droning, wall-of-sound Post Rock.

Overtop of lolling verses and choruses that threaten to break free and revolt, frontperson Dean Blackwell sings with down-trodden fatigue of the perils of a working-class life – examining the hierarchical structure of the rat race and the actions of those at the top that keep those at the bottom in subordination. Booming tom-toms and thick, overdriven guitars underscore Blackwell’s pondering over life’s accolades examined in grey-haired retrospect, as the song crashes into a galloping, up-to-eleven climax. “What will fill your memory?” he asks. Working the machine.

lyrics

Their connections to the cross begin
at their feet and extend to their tongues,
Bearing likeness to the regimented forming of drones.

Don’t you shame the ones that moulded you,
that scolded you,
That clipped your wings as they unfolded to
prevent you flying too high,
Then blamed it on the sky,
So that you’ll work until you’re old enough to die.

False idols of concrete and glass.
Training grounds for the working class.
Embedded in their bones are
sticks and stones.

Your life is but a moment in history;
A single frame in the cosmic reel.
And what will fill your memory?
Working the machine.

credits

released April 26, 2024
Engineered by James Goldsmith.
Mastered by Chris Chetland at KOG Studios.
Artwork by Sean Walker.
Released through AllGood Absolute Alternative Records, March 1st 2024.

Sheeps are:
Thomas Friggens - Drums
Grace Baker - Guitar
Blain Fitzpatrick - Bass Guitar
Simon Blackwell - Guitar
Dean Blackwell - Guitar/Vocals

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Art Rock for the end times.

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