A New Machine For the Living (CD)
NYC's Turing Machine is a talented 3-piece instrumental art/math/post-rock outfit featuring former members of Pitchblende and Vineland. Their debut album, "A New Machine for Living" (JT1044), was recorded by Bill Kellum (Doldrums) and mixed and produced by DFA-aka James Murphy (Trans Am, June of 44, Rachels, Les Savy Fav) and Tim Goldsworthy (former knob-twiddler of the remix posse UNKLE, who has done remixes for the likes of Beck, Can, Tortoise, Radiohead, Beta Band, and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion).
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | 4/13/72 |
| 2 | Flip Book Oscilloscope |
| 3 | The Doodler |
| 4 | Robotronic |
| 5 | (Got My) Rock Pants On |
| 6 | On Form and Growth |
| 7 | Swiss Grid |
| E Plurbus
- Amherst, MA, USA |
| Instructions: Open blender, insert conventional band instruments; unconventional, intricate talent; and the calculus formula for escape velocity. Mix on for about 72 minutes and listen. This is Turing Machine. Methodical like a Ti89, down to the last decimal place; you are listening to some of the best Mathrock, sans Don Caballero and Shellac days.
Recommend for all fans and those wishing to get a taste--and an exquisite one, indeed--of what math rock is. | |
| Eric Jones
- Cleveland, OH, USA |
| No, these guys are not as cutting edge as the bands that clearly influenced them, but this album is definitely very solid and hard-hitting. Turing Machine are more mechanical than your average math rock band and more mathematical than your average postrock band...so maybe this is post-math-rock? Nah, too much guitar. Anyway, this is an excellent album if you like your music fast and complex, but not confusing. | |
| Rob Muskingen
- St.Louis, MO, USA |
| The record blew me away. Sure, it owes a lot to all kinds of acts that went before it, but this record in particular had a real effect on me, like seeing Trans Am for the first time years ago. Keep it coming! | |
| Larry Fizz
- Lansing, MI, USA |
| Please. Did this record come out in 1992? It might have been interesting then. Despite their impressive chops, these guys should be resting on their laurels rather than retreading this tired old ground. Maybe it's a parody album. That would make a lot more sense, as it takes all the cliches several steps into the laughable. Sweet drummer, though. | |
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