This Machine Builds Fascists is about how I feel capitalism has led to a sense of global insecurity which has resulted in a surge of right wing populist thought which verges on fascism.

We made a machine, made a machine
A marvellous modern machine
It roars and it screams, roars and it screams
Gobbling oil and spitting out steam
What does it do? What does it do?
Tell us all, what does it do?
It strikes a spark that lights a fuse

All you gathered in this place
Lift your gaze towards the light
All you gathered in this place
Lift your gaze towards the light
And we need never live in darkness
While our engines make their mark upon the night


The smoke and the sigh, the screech and the sound
The grind of the gears spinning round
The gnashing of teeth, the rumbling ground
The echoes resound and resound
Rattling nerves, rattling bone
A treacherous shaking of stone
To bring down everything you’ve known

All you gathered in this place
Raise your hands to feel the heat
All you gathered in this place
Raise your hands to feel the heat
And you can dream about the feeling
While you’re shivering and reeling in the street


We made a machine, made a machine
A marvellous modern machine
It roars and it screams, roars and it screams
Gobbling oil and spitting out steam
What does it do? What does it do?
Tell us all, what does it do?
It strikes a spark that lights a fuse

This Machine Builds Fascists

Take It From Me

You Say You Won't

Lying Won`t Get You Anywhere

'Transfigured' is the third single by UK band Spirits of Saturn.
Released 01.03.2024.

Written by Spirits Of Saturn
Recorded at Loop Studios
Mixed + Mastered by Tucan

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‘Transfigured’, the follow up to their debut ‘Feelings Agency’ and second single ‘100mph’, was
recorded at Loop Studios in Manchester then mixed and mastered by Superorganism's Tucan.
A thumping synth pop ballad that oozes with synthesiser & string melodies weaving together like a neon
tapestry, the song explores the mental processes following the dissolution of relationships. How one gains
perspective through the passing of time and constructions of narratives whereby your emotions are
transfigured.

Transfigured

Lyrics by Andy Power
Music by Andy Power & Cain Garcia

Produced by Rob Whiteley
Mastered by Mark Gardener

Sentimentality

What if instead of the book and film Yes Man, you felt like you were always saying no, man? Ban Summers feels like the No Man - and in his new single he explains why.

Touching on chronic illness, disability and depression, No Man is his letter to friends and family on his absence and isolation.

Ban Summers homebrews lo-fi indie with all the feels from his bedroom in Portsmouth. No Man is the fourth single from his new album, which arrives before the summer.

No Man

Verse 1
WALKING AROUND UPSIDE DOWN
WITH M MEMORIES LONG GONE
MY BOYFRIEND, MY GIRLFRIEND AND PE OPLE AROUND
HAVE LEFT THE TOWN
STROLLING THE EMPTY STREETS AT NIGHT
THE CODE TO YOUR CELL THE KEY TO YOUR MIND
THE POWER OF NOW HAS NO TIME

Pre.C
WALKING BACK IN TEARS INTO THE WIND
WHEN THE FUTURES GONE WITH THE RISING SUN

Chorus:
SURE, THEIR COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER WAY
IF WE HELD THE TIDES
THEY COULD HAVE LIVED ANOTHER DAY
IF WE TOOK THE TIME

Verse 2:
IS MUTATION SO SURREAL? HAS THE FICTION BECOME REAL?
ISOLATE, SUFFOCATE WHEN ALIENATION TURNED INTO FATE
ORWELL HAS DESIGNED THE ROLES
NATURE WILL TICK THE ONES WHO WILL FALL
WILL SURVIVE 1984

Pre.C:
WALKING BACK IN TEARS INTO THE WIND
WHEN THE FUTURES GONE WITH THE RISING SUN
WALKING BACK IN TEARS INTO THE WIND
WHEN THE FUTURES GONE WITH THE RISING SUN

Chorus: 
SURE, THEIR COULD HAVE BEEN ANOTHER WAY
IF WE HELD THE TIDES
THEY COULD HAVE LIVED ANOTHER DAY
IF WE TOOK THE TIME

Bridge:
THEY WENT IN A SNEEZE
TAKEN BY THE BREEZE
I’LL REMEMBER YOU FOREVER
SPRINGS ETCH MEMORIES 
BLOSSOM IN THE TREES
I'LL REMEMBER YOU FOREVER

AS LIB FOR 2020  

EMPTY TALK, CAT WALK
VENTOLINE, MAGAZINES
SPEED BALL, ON THE DOLL
ISOLATE, SUFFOCATE

MILLE NEUF CENT QUATRE-VINGT-QUATRE

20 IN 2020

MILLE NEUF CENT QUATRE-VINGT-QUATRE

20 IN 2020

Twenty

FFO: Beck, Daniel Johnston, Courtney Barnett, Darwin Deez, Jeffrey Lewis, The Velvet Underground, Magnetic Fields

Album preorder: https://maxblansjaar.bandcamp.com/album/false-comforts

Anna Madonna is the first single from Max’s début album “False Comforts” (21 June 2024).

“It’s not easy out there. It hurts! Sometimes you want to lash out, renounce all ties, retreat into yourself. Trust nobody; pull the plug on them all. ‘Anna Madonna’ is a manifesto to say that we stay standing by holding each other through the storm. There is no cosmic conspiracy, no grand plan — frightening, tiresome, but above all a reminder to hold on to what we have. I wrote the words on a Post-It note which I stuck to my bedside table and left there until a melody appeared. It is best sung in front of mirrors and on school playgrounds.”

Max Blansjaar was born in Amsterdam, raised in Oxford and recorded this début album in Brooklyn. He appeared on the Oxford scene in 2018, aged 15, promoting shows in all-ages venues and performing his playfully sincere lo-fi indie pop songs. Since then he has released two EPs of laptop recordings on Beanie Tapes and become a fixture of the local scene, packing out pub back rooms and festival tents.

For his first full-length album, Max wanted to work with a producer to expand his sonic horizons. The shortlist of dream collaborators was quickly narrowed down to one: Katie Von Schleicher, whose self-produced 2020 album Consummation was on repeat on Max’s iPod. KVS had started producing other bands alongside Market’s Nate Mendelsohn, and they felt like the perfect combination to help make magic from Max’s elaborate and musically intricate demos.

Max spent two weeks in KVS’ home studio in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, working with Katie, Nate and friends who dropped in to lay down bass and drums. In ten intense days they captured ten songs that feel somehow grounded in Brooklyn, Oxford, Amsterdam or somewhere in between.


Max Blansjaar - Anna Madonna

Full Of Nothing

This song’s topic ain’t sexy but we had to write it anyway; it took some (broken) guts to put it out. It's about disablism, death by indifference, and a failing, flailing health system. It's personal and it's political. It's musically and lyrically twisted, eyeballing the
abyss without blinking.

Lying Won`t Get You Anywhere

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