Release Date: 18 October 2024
Song Count: 13
Duration: 44 minutes, 7 seconds
Rating: 7.3/10
Description:
Song Count: 13
Duration: 44 minutes, 7 seconds
Rating: 7.3/10
Description:
So, funny story as to why Machine Girl has now appeared twice on this blog: when following along on the recommendation from a friend of mine back in December, they actually meant to ask me to listen to this album rather than PsychoWarrior: MG ULTRA X, and I ended up mixing the two up because of the names being similar. Whoops. Well, I may be around six months late now, but at last I am now correcting my mistake today. Here is a thorough review of the album from a year prior, a later addition to a documented wide catalogue of electronic music that Machine Girl has made throughout the years.
On a similar route to their later works and collections, MG ULTRA acts as a prototype or stepping stone to the modern evolution of their sound - major distortion, high amounts of sample usage, a hyper saturation of every moving part that blares in the listener's ear and breaking the norms of music in whatever aspect needed to achieve creativity. The lucky number of tracks here are loud and brazen, unfiltered in their purest form, stimulating the sonical senses thoroughly but also providing catchy hooks that seem to fleet by and leave one to yearn for more. A true showcase of how to push the limits with extreme electronic music whilst keeping consistent grooves throughout, the full sum of songs leads to a listen that especially pays off with added experience to the band's music over time, but are far from difficult to enjoy even when jumping in as merely familiar with the broader genres at play.
What we have here is music that can only really be described as rapid, rushing and outright storming, like a hurling wind catching up to every force that it touches - in high BPMs and tightly mixed electronic percussions and samples, the sensation is felt that these tunes really wish to go somewhere. Perhaps overwhelming to the untrained ear that has a harder time keeping up with the pace, the album is one big stream of enjoyment to those more familiar with its general nature, then further providing with intriguing tracks on their own. Machine Girl prove once more with this record of theirs why they are not playing around and why they are highly respected within the extreme niche they have helped pioneer in the musical world.