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The Menace Of Mechanical Music

by Team Picture

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Penny Veline
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Penny Veline really cool 80's soaked soft melancholy vibes... I was sad to hear that Team Picture is no more, but I can only hope the people involved will go on to do similarly interesting things.

Why Handsome Machine? It's poetry:

"Oh, stolen secrets,
Oh, sweet delight
Oh, clear memories,
Oh, endless night
Show me what you mean to me.
I need a sacrifice" Favorite track: Handsome Machine.
Transmission Overload
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Transmission Overload One of our fave albums ❤️❤️❤️
darwyn
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darwyn Some might argue that this is Arcade Fire x Talking Heads. Well, there's nowt wrong with that, but this group are so much more. With every listen it grows and grows. THIS IS THE!! Favorite track: this is the.
eddiecarter1976
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eddiecarter1976 Saw TP at Hit the North a couple of years back, been looking forward to this album since then. Only heard Baby Rattlesnake at this point, but can't wait listen to the whole album. Favorite track: Baby Rattlesnake.
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    After selling out the the 2-colour split and with only a handful of ecomix vinyl left, we have pressed our debut baby TMOMM on to sea foam green vinyl.

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    **REVIEWS**
    "A fluid, elegant record. An escapist gem" 9/10 Loud & Quiet
    "thrilling, rich, innovative and satisfyingly danceable" 4/5 Q Magazine
    “...reaches to the stars and up the back of your spine” The Line Of Best Fit
    "Marvellously free-roaming, making stops at post-punk, art pop + even ambient" Bandcamp
    "[their] ambition + talent for offbeat art pop makes them a fascinating prospect” 4/5 - NARC
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about

The Menace Of Mechanical Music is the expansive, genre-lurching debut album from TEAM PICTURE, released on 12th June 2020 via Clue Records. Inspired by an early 20th century essay under the same name by American marching band leader John Philip Sousa, TEAM PICTURE dissect the automation of creativity.
Themes centre around the value of creative identity in an automated age, the increasingly disposable nature of art and where that leaves its creators. At twelve songs split into a three-part suite; The Menace of Mechanical Music is emphatically maximalist.
Sousa’s vision was of a society that had deferred to automation, where babies were rocked to sleep by wheels and pulleys, and people no longer played piano with their own hands. Well over 100 years later and on the precipice of a technological shift never seen before, The Menace of Mechanical Music is the most human response that TEAM PICTURE could have given.

""...their songs are so intoxicating. A fluid, elegant record + an escapist gem" 9/10 Loud & Quiet
"Team Picture's ambition and talent for offbeat art pop continues to make them a facinating prospect" 4/5 NARC
“...reaches to the stars and up the back of your spine” The Line Of Best Fit
“Lo-fi, lush and expansive” DORK
“Feels like it could batter its way through brickwork” DIY
"...a glorious spectacle, filled with incredible depth and diversity. It is like visiting the Tate Modern, where every art piece is striking yet different" Revue
"An innovative piece of art, the diverging styles never jar or appear coerced" 4/5 Yorkshire Evening Post
"Top 100 for 2019" NME

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released June 12, 2020

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