“Machines that listen” is a quiet, slowly EP from a band called Delta Mirror.
I have been listening a lot to one song from this debut EP – “A room for waiting”, which is a beautiful downtempo tune perfect for a quiet day chilling at home.
Nice dark drones, glitchy beats and a mysterious and interesting vocal on this track. Different voices on the other tracks.
The songs from the album is lyrically inspired by a hospital. Each song is supposed to belong to one room and one story, each from their separate room in the hospital.
You can stream the track here.
And here is what they write about the album over at Stereogum.
Delta Mirror say they they are of a mind with bands like the Big Pink and Fuck Buttons, acts bent simultaneously toward shoegaze and electronics. But the DM is less expansive and maybe less noisy, respectively, than those acts: Their debut LP Machines That Listen is downcast and down-tempo, heartfelt and brooding, immersive and swirling. It’s also gorgeous and incredibly repeatable. The beats are savvy. They glitch and break unpredictably, tricks the trio’s Craig Gordon and David Bolt no doubt picked up while working on their hip-hop project prior to this one. Lyrically, each song takes place in a different room of a hospital; it’s an emotional and conceptual palette that mirrors the Antlers’ Hospice. Three voices are at play, including bass player Karrie K’s, but it’s a gothy baritone that pushes most of the songs, registering like Interpol’s Paul Banks discovering IDM and M83. You should hear the whole record, but start with the gem “He Was Worse Than The Needle He Gave You.” You can grab it below, along with the premiere of its beat-flipped, upticked remix which, true to the band’s hip-hop roots, is filed by anticon dude Alias. And cap it all with a listen to “A Room For Waiting,” patiently post-rock in its piano-tinkling, exquisitely textured, a good example of the Delta Mirror’s ability to blend beats to phrases that become scenery-setting mantras: “You tell me to be patient because I’m not the only one but tell me how many were before me / how many were therevbefore me tell me how many were before me…” Great stuff: