FOR THE FLESH AND FOR THE MACHINE

A screaming return to consciousness after a vivid dream state, labyrinthine oceans offer the titular single of their upcoming EP '''for the
flesh and for the machine'''' - recounting an insomnia induced nightmare about being in a fatal car crash. Flesh collides with machinery
and becomes one, holding a mirror up to society''''s reliance on technology and the dangers of it becoming all consuming, eventually
causing the end of everything. A familiar, nostalgic soundscape envelops the track, paired with walls of guitars and reverb stained
fuzz, ending on the band''''s harshest vocal display to date, haunted and etched into the listener''''s spine. A darker warning of
technological paranoia, surveillance and dystopia; which begs the question - will you accept the machine or abandon it? about the
writing process: Something that has continued to occupy my mind is the omnipresence of technology and the present parallels to
situations that are seemingly taken out of a dystopian novel, which I touched on in automata last year and carefully weaved into the
lyrical DNA of our upcoming EP. There is this inherent paranoid feeling I have of being watched constantly, one which caused me to
have these intense nightmares for a period of about a year when I suffered heavily from insomnia and this particular one of a car

crash stuck with me because it didn''''t end upon impact, but rather I felt myself becoming one with this machine that had consumed
me - a feeling that does not feel dissimilar to technology almost becoming an extension of ourselves, humanised, normalised and
expected to be used. A feeling of becoming almost less human for it. With for the flesh and for the machine, I lyrically tackle the
feeling of almost becoming half machine, governed by devices and technology without an easy alternative path, the almost
comforting reliance on tech and the impact of this on human behaviour and mental health. It sits in an uncanny space and it feels
inescapable, everywhere you look there are screens, concrete, electric nervous systems made up of wires and husks of metal are
granted artificial humanity. Rejecting it is not possible. The line between flesh and machine is increasingly blurred.