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The latest single by Americana/Alt-rock band The Blue Highways

Nobody Lives Here Anymore

The Epilogue that ends The Art of Letting Go Mini Album - a year down the line - we hope we have captured a residual and momentary rawness by using the vocal from the demo - a snapshot in time.

One More Way to Say Goodbye - Machina X

My world is turning without you
Beginning to doubt who was really to blame, here
Maybe I’ll figure it out, yeah?
And just live without
Guess that’s still ok-yayayeah
 
You know I spent such a long time
Hung out on the sideline, hung out to dry, yeah?
Life’s too short for regrets now - finally get
You were just passing by yay-ay-yeah

Maybe there’s some day, we will look back, hey
Say it’s okay-yeah?
If it don’t kill ya, it makes you stronger
Is that what they say, yeah?

One more way to say goodbye
And two more days to draw a line, yeah?
One more way to say goodbye
And two more days to leave behind, yeah

Was more than a season, but guess just a reason
A life-time ago, yeah?
And I am finally alright to be in the spotlight of your yesterdays - yayayay 
So maybe you're out there but why would I go there, anymore (I’m happy now)
Hearts n minds go resistant, become distant …with space and time, yeah, yeh


Maybe there’s some day, we will look back, hey
Say it’s okay-yeah?
What doesn’t kill ya, makes you much stronger
Is that what they say, yeah?

One more way to say goodbye
And two more days to draw a line, yeah?
One more way to say goodbye
And two more days to leave behind, yeah

The epilogue to The Art of Letting Go mini album released 1 year ago.  Currently only available as a digital download via bandcamp.

https://machina-x.bandcamp.com/album/the-art-of-letting-go-mini-album

The Art of Letting Go

One More Way (to Say Goodbye)

Afterparty

PRESS RELEASE
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With its washes of synths strings, tinkering electronic piano, detached vocals and layered harmonies delivered in Cromwell’s lush baritone, ‘The Winter Palace’ evokes an icy cold soundscape fit for the months of winter. Where the title track of his recent album ‘Memory Box’ is about losing the power of recall, ‘The Winter Palace’ is about trying to forget a lost love, but being haunted by them in his memory. Cromwell sings to his former love “I dream of you regardless, whether I am asleep or awake”.

With a majestic sweeping synth solo, that wouldn’t sound out of place on Bowie’s ‘Low’, sonically the song sits between classic new wave artists like Joy Division or OMD and more contemporary acts like Ladytron or Black Marble.

The B-side ‘Rod, Jane and Freddy,’ with its squelchy vintage synths and rumbling krautrock beat, is a playful technicoloured instrumental named after the performance group from 1980’s ITV children’s show Rainbow. 

‘The Winter Palace’ was recorded in Cromwell’s home studio in Catford, South London and was produced in Brooklyn, New York at ACME Hall Studio by Rich Bennett.

Since the release of his debut 'Age of Anxiety' album, Rodney Cromwell has been featured by the likes of NME, Electronic Sound, Huffington Post, Paste, Shindig!, Louder Than War, The Big Takeover, Magic RPM and the Bandcamp homepage. He’s had national radio play in Japan, Finland, Germany and multiple spins on RTE in Ireland, on BBC 6 Music in the UK and RNE3 in Spain for whom he recorded a live session.

The Rodney Cromwell live set is a joyful mixed-media extravaganza, incorporating analogue synths, video visuals and live instrumentation, interjected by Rodney’s 'offbeat wit'' (NME). His debut festival appearance at Indietracks was described as 'like a spiritual experience". He has shared stages with acts including A Flock of Seagulls, Pram, Death & Vanilla, Rowetta, M!R!M and Steve Davis. His sole performance in 2020 was as part of Damo Suzuki's backing band. In 2022 he recorded a live session for Electronic Sound and in autumn 2022 he is playing a number of dates supporting Blancmange.

The Winter Palace

RODNEY  CROMWELL The Winter Palace (Radio Edit)

Written by Spiral Frank and The Spheres 
Engineered and Produced by Jamie Evans 
Mastered by ZVUK Mastering

Blink Of An Eye

Dias melhores - instrumental

Machina X (Mak-in-na  X)/AnnieXMX Electro-eclectica music for the messy||  
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One More Way (to Say Goodbye)

MACHINA X