Machineries of Joy
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| Studio album by British Sea Power | ||||
| Released | 1 April 2013 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 43:04 | |||
| Label | Rough Trade | |||
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Machineries of Joy is a studio album by British indie rock band British Sea Power. It was released in April 2013 on the Rough Trade record label.
The album's title track was released as a single in February 2013 in advance of the album release.
To promote the album, the band announced a UK tour in April 2013.
The album reached #2 on the UK indie album chart, and #19 on the regular chart. It also debuted at #15 on the Irish indie album chart.
Rough Trade announced the track listing as follows.
Initial copies of the album were bundled with a bonus EP containing 5 tracks:
The band started writing the songs that would form the album at the start of 2012. These were released in the form of "enhanced demos" on limited edition EPs (see section BSP EP1-6). Later in the year, the band spent two weeks in the Welsh mountains working on completing the songs. They recorded the album in Brighton in November 2012.
The name of the album (and its title track) comes from a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury, The Machineries of Joy. Bradbury's work has influenced the band's songwriting in the past: "Something Wicked" (from The Decline of British Sea Power) refers to Bradbury's novel Something Wicked This Way Comes and "Georgie Ray" (from Valhalla Dancehall) alludes in part to Bradbury.
British Sea Power began working on the songs which would form the album in the first half of 2012, releasing six limited-edition demo EPs, one at each of their monthly Krankenhaus club nights in Brighton.
Each is titled simply BSP EPx (sometimes described as simply BSP x), 'x' running from 1 to 6.
The cover of each EP features a picture of a bird or animal wearing a hat, drawn by band member Yan (Scott Wilkinson).
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