Machine Girl share video for ‘Rabbit Season’, new album PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X out Oct 24
PRAISE FOR Machine Girl
“It’s hard to imagine a better soundtrack for the revolution than Machine Girl”
“Their sound is undeniably shaped by growing up with unlimited internet access, exposed to the raw frontier of image boards, shock sites, and Limewire”
“Relentlessly smashing together bits of punk, grindcore, rave, industrial, and more, the Pittsburgh duo’s maximalist music echoes the cruel momentum of the modern world”
TRACKLIST
We Don’t Give A Fuck
Come On Baby, Scrape My Data
Ignore The Vore
Rabbit Season
Creeping Up From The Pit
Psychowar
Innermission
Dual Wield
ID Crisis Angel
Down To The Essence
Despite Having No Money At All I’m Just Another
Phantom Doom
Dread Architect (Feat. Drumcorps)
I-Void Destroyer
PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X LP
Oct 24 via Future Classic
PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE LP / LISTEN TO ‘RABBIT SEASON’ HERE
Machine Girl, the newly trio’d New York-based electronic hardcore project helmed by Matt Stephenson, share the video for their latest single ‘Rabbit Season’, directed by close collaborator Sydney Villacortabuer. WATCH HERE.
Set in New York City, the video follows an escaped rabbit being hunted through the city streets. Speaking on the video, director Sydney Villacortabuer shares, “The best part about filming Rabbit Season was just getting to feel like a kid again. Whether we were doing fight scenes or pulling off stunts out in public, I kept thinking how fun it was to see everyone’s inner child come out. It reminded me that even as we grow up, that part of us is always still there.”
Their second album in two years, PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X is part of the same arc as 2024’s incredibly successful MG Ultra, an album that garnered 15+ million streams and sold 55,000 tickets on the subsequent tour. Whereas MG Ultra explored mind control, PsychoWarrior delves into the collective unconscious. “I’d been reading analytical psychology and the writings of Joseph Campbell and Jung,” recalls Matt. “There’s a concept of the collective unconscious and these archetypes that we innately have. We adopt different personae in order to get through the day. In essence, you complete yourself by facing your shadow self. To do so, you must accept the less savory aspects of who you are. There’s a lot of validity to these theories. Right now, we’re a very psychologically damaged culture and society. We’re being pushed over the edge with social media and technology. Any chance of resistance against these systems starts in the mind, so this was the genesis of PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X.”
Machine Girl carved out an incomparable lane upon arrival in 2012. Stephenson’s 2014 full-length debut LP, Wlfgrl, achieved bona fide cult status, shocked to life by ‘Out by 16, Dead on the Scene’, ‘Ghost’, and ‘Mg1’, which have reeled in north of 43 million Spotify streams and counting. Their sound proceeded to completely reinvent itself across each LP that followed—Gemini (2015), …Because I’m Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For (2017), The Ugly Art (2018), U-Void Synthesizer (2020), and 2022’s two-part Original Soundtrack for the video game Neon White. Most recently, 2024’s MG Ultra incited the most enthusiastic critical applause of the band’s career so far.
The trio also detail their first ever full UK tour, including stops at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town and Manchester’s O2 Ritz. The full set of tour dates can be found here.
The Machine Girl narrative bridges the divide for all types of freaks. Becoming widely known for their vitriolic, organic, massive grassroots following, developed through a sense of aesthetic maximalism, both online and BUT MAINLY off. Founded by Matt Stephenson and percussionist Sean Kelly, the union of their frenetic sound, DIY ethos and distinctly hi-fi, widescreen vision has garnered profound resonance throughout culture and across fans worldwide.
Machine Girl have become dually infamous for their cathartic, unpredictable, acrobatic performances and their uncompromising, genre-oblivious catalogue, boasting a reputation as one of the most compelling performance offerings of the underground. Kerrang! listed them as one of the “bands expanding the definition of hardcore,” and described the project as, “a particularly… ferocious breed of the electronic sub-genre breakcore that could easily pass for hardcore when they rip it live.”
In 2022, Machine Girls’ first worldwide tour hit 24 countries and 34 cities, over 41 days, with their first-ever UK and Aus runs sold out entirely in pre-sale. Come 2023 they teamed up with 100 gecs for a sold-out six-week run across the US. In the time since, as an entirely independent group Machine Girl have cultivated over 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, culminating in their signing to like-minded label innovators, Future Classic.
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