{"product_id":"water-machine-god-park","title":"Water Machine - God Park","description":"Flooding out of Glasgow in 2022, Water Machine quickly gained a reputation for their weird and\nwonky art-punk, winning hearts with sing-along songs about dogs, struggling artists and the housing\ncrisis. The world of Water Machine is a swirling eddy of melodic bass lines and volatile guitar sliding\nbetween jazz chords and punk riffs, all the while narrated by sardonic social commentary and silly\nstories. Driving rhythms thumped out on a sparse kit with cowbell flourishes are reminiscent of Beat\nHappening and The Jesus and Mary Chain, while cherubic vocal and violin harmonies hint at country\nand folk influences. A band with pop sensibilities and indignant punk urgency, these oddballs dart\nfrom sweet C86 to spiky post-punk, often within a single song.\n''God Park'' takes disparate influences and distils the disjointed into something new. Taking influence\nfrom everywhere - from LiLiPUT to The Pastels - the tunes are always on the verge of falling apart or\nbreaking down. Whether it’s the bubblegum pop of lead single Tiffany or the country-punk bait and\nswitch that is Hando, their frantic genre-hopping is always underpinned with anarchic joy.\n\n\nIn places, Water Machine’s songs do indeed echo hometown touchstones such as The Vaselines and the\narty, pre-Ecstasy, Soup Dragons, plus the bands on Postcard Records. Similar to their predecessors there\nare affectionate nods to pop’s past. Handclaps and harmonies hark back to the ’60s. Organs grind like\ngarage nuggets. Motown gets mutated through Rickenbacker jangle. There are Tropicalia-like touches,\nand bass-lines pay homage to Peter Hook. Everything on the album packs positive, punk energy. Think\nBuzzcocks, not The Pistols.\n“Water Machine is a very cool band” - Henry Rollins \/\/\n\n“There’s a presumed effortlessness to Water Machine’s post-punk, but don’t be fooled:\nthey know what they’re doing” - Maximum Rocknroll \/\/\n\n“Water Machine don’t sound anything like The Smiths” - Marc Riley","brand":"FATCAT","offers":[{"title":"limited blue LP","offer_id":53022412243286,"sku":"MRM-03782","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/a9b09d1e4fced33298f8edd07caa74b5.jpg?v=1775207434","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/water-machine-god-park","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}