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Artist Beautiful Supermachines

  • Beautiful Supermachines Victoria Renard

David Williams has built an impressive career out of dabbling, getting his start with late-’70s punks The Vomit Pigs, graduating to hip-hop with Dallas’ Decadent Dub Team and The Jungle Brothers, and eventually working as a go-to sound engineer. He puts his vagabond years to good use in his new project Beautiful Supermachines: The group’s debut LP, Shut Up, is a Technicolor mélange of fuzz-box fireworks and aloof pop hooks layered with a producer’s ear for those all-important minor details, and informed by Williams’ wildly diverse palette. Unfortunately, personnel issues have held up a follow-up, but while the Supermachines have yet to nail down a stable rhythm section, the band at least found a reliable ally in Casual Victims Pile veterans The Distant Seconds. 

Updated 11/10/2010

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