"Every frantic moment, every hairpin twist and trigger pull, is soundtracked by stuttering breakbeats and twisted electronics from the New York band Machine Girl. It's a great fit-in the decade-plus that Matt Stephenson has been working under the Machine Girl name, few have made music as supernaturally chaotic and disorienting. His songs' unrelenting pace and labyrinthine structures make them the perfect accompaniment for fighting a spiritual war."
"These themes were on Stephenson's mind again while making Machine Girl's seventh full-length, PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X, which turns its gaze on, in his view, "a very psychologically damaged culture and society." According to Stephenson, the only way we can push back on the degrading forces that shape our world-social media and technology chief among them-is by taking a battle stance against our hard-wired programming. "Any chance of resistance against these systems starts in the mind," he said in a statement."
"In practice, that means 14 tracks of digitally thrashed and distortion-scoured mutations of noise rock, nightcore-d EBM, hardcore (of both the punk and techno variety), and other extreme music microgenres-often jumpcutting between sounds and styles within a single track. Stephenson never gets a moment of rest; he's always trying to jam the accelerator through the floor. In some sense, this is how he's always operated, but the approach has rarely felt as focused as it does on PsychoWarrior."
PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X is Machine Girl's seventh full-length, targeting a psychologically damaged culture and urging mental resistance to degrading forces like social media and technology. The album offers 14 tracks that merge digitally thrashed noise rock, nightcore-d EBM, punk and techno-influenced hardcore, and other extreme microgenres, frequently jumpcutting styles within single songs. The production emphasizes distortion, pace, and labyrinthine song structures that leave little rest. Longtime drummer Sean Kelly and new guitarist Lucy Caputi contribute to a focused, aggressive delivery that amplifies the record's combative, accelerator-to-the-floor intensity.
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