Mercury Machine
Mercury Machine are less a Manchester band and more one of a pan-European perspective that, post-Brexit, perhaps only exists only in the creative space. Sure, the five-piece pay appropriate homage to the rain-sodden post-punk of home, but their synth-driven scope targets much bigger and darker horizons. Yet it’s been a journey, and the destination is not yet fixed.
With a New Wave-leaning album already under their belts, and a new one due later in the year, current material cements the band’s stadium-sized Goth-rock of old and so too pushes an industrial, cyber-flavoured strain of paranoia popular in the late 80s/early 90s. It’s massive and yet still eager to stomp on the pedals to ratchet up the oppressive atmosphere at every opportunity.
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