Yesterday's Machine
Download links and information about Yesterday's Machine by Saturn Never Sleeps. This album was released in 2011 and it belongs to Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz genres. It contains 12 tracks with total duration of 43:18 minutes.
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Artist: | Saturn Never Sleeps |
Release date: | 2011 |
Genre: | Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz |
Tracks: | 12 |
Duration: | 43:18 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Lotus | 5:23 |
2. | Bit By Bit | 4:22 |
3. | Hearts On Fire | 2:42 |
4. | Tory | 4:20 |
5. | Tomorrow Is a Rumor | 1:09 |
6. | Grace | 2:18 |
7. | The Machines Are the Stars | 3:47 |
8. | Divine | 4:09 |
9. | Yesterday Is Gone | 4:29 |
10. | Drk | 1:43 |
11. | All Seasons Are Good | 3:12 |
12. | Take It Out | 5:44 |
Details
[Edit]Formed in 2009 for improvisational performances dedicated to Sun Ra, Saturn Never Sleeps rapidly became one of the most substantial projects from veteran musicians/producers Rucyl and King Britt. A diverse list of peers could be checked off, including Little Dragon, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kissey Asplund, Sa-Ra, and even Sade. They cite not just Sun Ra, but fellow electronic music pioneers Delia Derbyshire and Herbie Hancock, as inspirations. The scope could be widened in a speculative sense to include the spacious alien pop of Japan’s Tin Drum, the whimsical interludes that dot a handful of Rotary Connection albums, and the experimental electronic music released on labels like Raster-Noton and Mego. Yesterday's Machine offers avant R&B that is soft-focus and subdued. Rucyl’s voice, sweetly nuanced and sometimes slightly pained, never eclipses lullaby volume level and is cradled with a stimulating array of abstract sounds. “Tory” is one of only two songs with a steady kick drum, yet it’s easy to get lost in its web of bounding synthetic bass, handclaps, ricocheting percussion accents, and soft keyboard interjections, as well as Rucyl herself — is the repeated “Are you gonna show me what to do?” a come-on, a dare, or a facetious jab? “The Machines Are the Stars” is a gorgeous ambient slow jam for science nerds, where gently knocking drums, gossamer-like guitar, and clipped gasps are all that’s necessary: “Black holes don’t explain, and neither do we/Can’t explain the energy of true love.” Most stunning is the album’s closer, “Take It Out,” where Rucyl pleads for her lover to open up — “Take it out on me” is sung like a resignation, as if her mind has kept her up all night — over a sullen post-punk groove that evokes early Cure as produced by Italo disco duo Klein + M.B.O.