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MH-224 Her Space Holiday - The Young Machines  Change... love... death... infidelity... confession... a break up. Marc Bianchi is nearly surgical in his ability to slice delicate songs of love, loss, hope, despair, and optimism out of one very hard year. His striking new release as Her Space Holiday is The Young Machines, an authentic foray into intelligent dream-pop. The production is everything you have come to expect from Her Space Holiday; intricate string arrangements, analog synth patterns, lush guitar-like drones and tasteful drum programming abound, but it is the songwriting that elevates the album to its elite status. Traditional song structures take unexpected turns throughout, highlighting introspection and vulnerability most often missing in electronic music. The Young Machines is a ten-song encapsulation of a year on the edge and Her Space Holiday's most complete and personal release. |
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| Terrific stuff. - Q / A beautiful bittersweet record - Under The Radar / Often on a par with the very best of Elliott Smith. - Uncut / The finest Her Space Holiday release - Pulse / Rapturous and bittersweet, The Young Macines is a soothing swoon. - Entertainment Weekly / Bianchi has made the album of his life - Logo |
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| Hardcore thrasher cum bedroom popper Marc Bianchi (Her Space Holiday) can sure be a melancholy guy. And that's partly why his work fascinates me. I am pushed to consider why the sometimes embarrassingly confessional lyrics in partnership with simple bittersweet melody make for such a compelling listen. Though hardly alone in his approach, Bianchi imbues his tuneful electronica with authentic emotional burden. He programs his drums with unusual rhythmic patterns. The songs on this record not infrequently turn on surprising shifts in structure. The becalmed vocals ground the songs however, keeping them in the realm of purely pop tunes. The Young Machines works through a year of much change: relocation from San Mateo to Austin, a new record label, infidelity, a death, a break up, and does so with a complex courage and confidence, molding despair into a fragile optimism, for Bianchi and his listeners. This is a very commendable record. - Skyscraper |
