New music review with singles from MAQUINA. and Opus Kink
- Julia Mason aka The Decibel Decoder
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Our weekly fix of the best new music as Julia Mason (aka The Decibel Decoder) brings us her new music review with singles from MAQUINA. simulation and Opus Kink Will It Come For You?
Artist: MAQUINA.
Track: simulation
Today, Lisbon's party-starters MAQUINA. have shared another new single, simulation, from their forthcoming album BODY TRANSMISSION, due out 10 July via Fuzz Club. The single comes as the band confirm plans to bring their electrifying live show back to the UK later this summer, following buzzy shows at The Great Escape and across the country in the Spring.
MAQUINA. embody all the sweaty togetherness and euphoria a collective music experience has to offer. The 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. On their new LP they bottle that energy, intentionally exploring the idea of “body music”, of tension and release, and delving into a more sensual, darker, and immersive universe.
Where their last single dança saw Barcelona duo Dame Area join for a snotty vocal attack, this time MAQUINA. present their first ever fully instrumental cut, designed to make the listener lose themselves in the moment. simulation turns guitar into a percussive engine, driving chugging beats, siren-like wails and sharp metallic strikes through a tight, instrumental blast of industrial punk. It sees MAQUINA. push their high-impact, motorik heaviness into a focused, dancefloor-ready rush. The accompanying video was made with footage from the band's recent tour of Brazil.
With over 250 gigs and numerous festival appearances across Europe already under their belt MAQUINA. are 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. Bottling the raw power of their now-legendary live shows, and co-produced by the band alongside Hugo Valverde, it arrives following MAQUINA.’s 2024 debut PRATA. This was also released on Fuzz Club and largely driven by improvisation, locking itself into the flow state of a live performance.
For their new full-length, the band, Halison Peres (drums/vocals), José "Mendy" Rego (bass), and João Cavalheiro (guitar/effects), opted for less jamming and more “editing”, taking time to mull over the direction of each track while also looking to condense 10-minute meanders into three or four-minute “bangers” that slap. The result is a full-body rush geared towards the dance-floor with “no breaks”; a club-ready rock record steered by the trio’s guitar, drums, and bass combo.
“It was the most challenging and fun we’ve ever had in the studio because we pushed ourselves to write songs rather than just capturing jams,” say the band. “We wanted it to feel heavy, focused, and relentless. We kept the tempo up and the energy peaking – it’s an 'always-on' record.”
MAQUINA. Live Dates
June
23 - Bilbao, ES - Kutxa Belza
24 - Madrid, ES - Cafe Berlin *SOLD OUT*
25 - Santander, ES - Rockbeer The New
26 - Bergerac, FR - La Claque Festival
27 - Paimpol, FR - Paimpol in Rock
28 - Bourlon, FR - Rock In Bourlon
July
3 - Lisbon, PT - Listening Party - BODY TRANSMISSION
4 - Sintra, PT - Festival Aqui ao Lado
11 - Coimbra, PT - Private Event
17 - Montijo, PT - Coperativa Fest
18 - Lisbon, PT - MUSA (DJ Set)
25 - Gouveia, PT - TBA
31 - Constância, PT - Rock ao Luar
August
6 - Aveiro, PT - Novas Quintas Teatro Aveirense
7 - Nürnberg, DE - Brückenfestival
8 - Liège, BE - Micro Festival
11 - Huesca, ES - San Lorenzo De Huesca
15 - Cadima, PT - Lúcia Lima
16 - Santiago de Compostela, ES - Capitol*
28 - Torremolinos, ES - Canela Party
September
2 - Leicester, UK - The International
3 - Glossop, UK - The Globe
4 - Brighton, UK - Brighton Psych Fest
5 - Manchester, UK - Manchester Psych Fest
6 - Bristol, UK - The Croft
10 - Šibenik, HR - Ship Festival
12 - Orléans, FR - Hop Pop Hop Festival
13 - Asten, NL - Misty Fields
18 - Oviedo, ES - Outside
* supporting Amyl and the Sniffers
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Artist: Opus Kink
Track: Will It Come For You?
Brighton indie staples Opus Kink share brand new track Will It Come For You? taken from debut LP The Sweet Goodbye arriving 31 July via So Recordings (Placebo, Enter Shikari, Deadletter, Big Special).
Detailing their newest LP reveal, frontman Angus Rogers explained: “Will It Come For You? is a song about searching for your function in the world, the fear that there might not be one, and the sense of an encroaching fate different and maybe more terrible than you had imagined. It’s also about becoming more jaded, more afraid that the world will find ways to dash your hopes, and wondering if you can break through that and discover new ways to live within the ascribed hellscape!”
Hot on the heels of LP offerings The Head Tree (feat. The New Eves), album title-track The Sweet Goodbye and BBC 6 Music B-Listed lead single Come Over, Do Me Wrong, the group’s newest effort Will It Come For You? enters bounding, wonky pop territory, and showcases the band’s manic absorption of influences shining through the discipline of the record’s new-yet-ancient sound. It also arrives alongside news of a hometown album launch show at Brighton’s Concorde 2 (Terrace) on 6 August.
Through their songs concerning violence, evil, shame, troubled sexual politics, anxiety and emptiness, all served with a wry absurdist bent, Opus Kink have crafted an alluring nether-world for their voracious audiences to plunge into and attracted significant acclaim in the process. Hitting the festival circuit extensively this summer ahead of their album release (incl. Green Man Festival + Viagra Boys & The Libertines support slots) Opus Kink will follow that up with a full UK and European headline tour in the autumn including their biggest ever headline show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town as they celebrate the arrival of The Sweet Goodbye.
Opus Kink Live Dates
July
4 - Rochester Castle (w/ The Libertines) (UK)
18 - Sons no Parque, Aligo (PT)
August
6 - Concorde II Terrace, Brighton (UK)
14 - Les Perséides Festival (FRA)
22 - Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons (UK)
28 - Olympia, Liverpool (w/ Viagra Boys) (UK)
September
26 - Float Along Festival, Sheffield (UK)
October
14 - Jazz Pulsations Festival, Nancy (FR)
November
17 - Bootleg Social, Blackpool (UK)
19 - King Tuts, Glasgow (UK)
20 - Wardrobe, Leeds (UK)
21 - Band On The Wall, Manchester (UK)
22 - Cobalt Studios, Newcastle (UK)
25 - Thekla, Bristol (UK)
26 - O2 Forum Kentish Town, London (UK)
28 - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (UK)
December
5 - Point FMR, Paris (FR)
6 - Le Grand Mix, Lille (FR)
8 - Rotown, Rotterdam (NL)
9 - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
10 - VOLT, Sittard (NL)
11 - Helios 37, Cologne (DE)
13 - Badehaus, Berlin (DE)
14 - Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg (DE)
16 - Botanique, Brussels (BE)
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