Lisbon’s MAQUINA. announce details of their forthcoming new album BODY TRANSMISSION, set for release on 10 July via Fuzz Club. The trio also share two singles and confirm the first batch of extensive touring plans for this year, including UK dates next month. MAQUINA. embody all the sweaty togetherness and euphoria a collective music experience has to offer. The buzzy Lisbon trio have been getting punks to dance and club kids to pogo, “making the bubbles connect a little bit”, with such fervour they routinely pack out venues and inspire multiple waves of crowdsurfing at any given live show, with over 250 gigs and numerous festival appearances across Europe already under their belt. Still on a high after their first tour of Brazil and KEXP performance, the three-piece ring in a new chapter with their second LP BODY TRANSMISSION: a head-banging trip through high-energy noise-rock, motorik metal, and industrial punk that doesn’t stop moving. Today they start the party with the high-octane thumper ‘pressure/pleasure‘ staring into the strobe lights with pounding beats, threading a little ‘00s electroclash through a backbone of chuggy, thrashy guitar. Second single ‘agony‘, also online today is equally unapologetic in its delivery, both snarling and visceral – fitting for a politically charged lightning bolt written during our current moment of intense global conflict. “False speech / is belief / is distraction / to deceive,” spits Halison Peres, reminding us that art cannot be created in a vacuum.
“It’s about the false speech that politicians always try to push, towards some enemy or something, to deceive what they really want to do,” reflects Peres of the track, which depicts a ‘no man’s land’ where humanity finds itself stranded amid misery and chaos.
MAQUINA. Live Dates
May
1 – Barcelona, ES @ Miceli Fest
9 – Barreiro, PT @ Gasoline (DJ Set)
15 – Nijmegen, NL @ Sonic Whip
17 – Todmorden, UK @ The Golden Lion
18 – Glasgow, UK @ Flying Duck
19 – Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
20 – London, UK @ Downstairs at the Dome
21 – Paris, FR @ Garage Mu Festival
22 – Den Haag, NL @ Sniester Festival
23 – Le Havre, FR @ Foul Weather Festival
30 – Freamunde, PT @ Route 66
June
19 – Santa Maria de Lamas, PT @ Basqueiral
20 – Lucerne, CH @ B-Sides Festival
21 – Martigny, CH @ Caves du Manor
23 – Bilbao, ES @ Kutxa Belza
24 – Madrid, ES @ Cafe Berlin
25 – Santander, ES @ The New
26 – Bergerac, FR @ La Claque Festival
27 – Paimpol, FR @ Paimpol in Rock
28 – Bourlon, FR @ Rock in Bourlon
July
4 – Sintra, PT @ Festival Aqui ao Lado
18 – Lisbon, PT @ Musa de Marvila (DJ Set)
31 – Constância, PT @ Rock ao Luar
August
6 – Aveiro, PT @ Novas Quintas Teatro Aveirense
7 – Nürnberg, DE @ Brückenfestival
9 – Liege, BE @ Micro Festival
16 – Santiago de Compostela, ES @ Capitol*
10 – Sibenik, HR @ Ship Festival
12 – Orleans, FR @ Hop Pop Hop Festival
*supporting Amyl And The Sniffers
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