Latest
single “Fade On,” music
video “Weights and Stones” (starring Sonic!) from band’s two-year labor of
love, streaming now.
+++
Tree
Machines (L-R): Douglas Wooldridge, Patrick
Aubry. Photo by Kasia Nawrocka.
+++
Tree Machines – In The Press
“Anthemic.” (The Wild) | “Gleaming
placidity.” (BlackBook) | “Some LA
soul that indie pop needs.” (Popdust) | “Viciously human.” (Atwood) | “Emotionally
staggering.” (Diffuser) | “Best new
rock song of the year.” (BULLETT) | “Beautifully
brutal.” (Innocent Words) | “I’ve
been unable to stop listening.” (Gold Flake Paint) | “Hope and illumination.” (The Vinyl District) | “Heart-quickening sentimentality.” (MAGNET)
| “Best thing I’ve heard all week.”
(Daytrotter)
+++
PLAY, POST
& SHARE
“Theirs is a big, urgent, liberating sound, outsized
indie-rock with pop choruses and churning electronics, a soundtrack to being
unleashed from their former lives.” – Buzzbands.la
with the
premiere of “Fade On” by Tree Machines. Listen here
or at the links below!
[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUQSMU3VH6Q
[SOUNDCLOUD]: https://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/tree-machines-fade-on
+++
PLAY, POST
& SHARE
“The video showcases a beautiful dance piece while the
song tackles the idea of breaking free from anything holding you back.” – Substream with the
premiere of the “Weights and Stones”
music video by Tree Machines. See
it here or watch and listen at the links below!
+++
“To me, this track is a
sister song to our
very first single ‘Fucking Off
Today,’” says Doug Wooldridge of
Tree Machines referring to the track
that launched the band in 2015 with a blunt declaration of what it’s like to be
caught in a uniquely Midwestern malaise. “‘Fade
On’ is another visceral look into the party culture – too much booze and
too many drugs.”
Wooldridge continues, “What draws these people to congregate in
rundown warehouses and fields across the world with minds blown and bodies
stuck in seemingly perpetual motion? It’s the music, the vibes, the feeling of
being surrounded by strangers that are just like you; faded and confused.”
Wooldridge had “Fade On”
half-written when he left on a trip to Ireland, and had the unfinished version
with him as he hopped the flight back home.
“I’d just settled into my seat with a drink in hand
and a pencil tucked behind my ear when I look up to see Thom Yorke walking past me,” he remembers. “I worked up enough
courage to go shake his hand and tell him he’s an idol of mine, and then I went
back to my seat, downed my drink, ordered a second, and finished ‘Fade On’ by the time we were over the
Atlantic.”
The band’s latest music video is
for the song “Weights and Stones.”
Woodridge says, “First and foremost, I gotta say that our
dancer, Sonic, absolutely killed it.
I really wanted her to come off as fierce, like take no shit from nobody
fierce, and she nailed it.”
He continues, “The basic story of ‘Weights and Stones’ is about empowering anyone to break free and
brush off the weights that keep us locked in place, whether that’s a bad
relationship, or a job you hate, or even a city you can’t stand to live in
anymore. I got the inspiration for this video from Flume & Chet Faker’s video for ‘Drop The Game.’ Something about having movement and expression out
in the wild really stuck with me and I had to give it a shot.”
+++
Relocated from Lawrence, Kansas, Tree
Machines built a safe room in Los
Angeles. Not for security of the conventional kind, but for a place to unleash,
and make the kind of music that is at once vulnerable and strong, without fear
of consequence. Anthems for times that don’t make sense, but carve a path forward.
Call it a studio, if you have to. But you don’t have to.
Here, Douglas
Wooldridge (vocalist, lyricist),
bandmate Patrick Aubry,
and producer Mike Giffin
(all three contribute to the various instrumentation and music) have been
creating Up For Air, the debut Tree Machines full-length album, scheduled for release
on the band’s Man In The Machine
label on Sept. 22nd, 2017.
The upcoming album follows-up 2015’s debut Tree
Machines EP, which contained the
single “Fucking Off Today,” a difficult-to-ignore opening salvo that expressed Midwestern malaise
(which these former Kansans know all too well) in a new way. Three more Tree
Machines singles appeared during the
summer of that year.
Up
For Air, the debut album by Tree Machines, is scheduled for release
on September 22nd, 2017. Members of Tree Machines are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
+++
Tree Machines Links
+++
Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
