The Wytches reveal title track from new album, "Talking Machine"
The Wytches have released the title track from their forthcoming fifth studio album, Talking Machine.
"I saw the term “Talking Machine” in a book I was reading about Thomas Edison. It was a nickname for gramophones. I thought that was fitting enough for an album title, but I guess like a lot of people, the whole AI thing has been on my mind a lot and I saw a connection there too.
Thomas Edison would host these events called Tone Tests where he’d demonstrate how much audio recordings had advanced by fooling the audience in to thinking they were listening to musicians playing live but it was actually all pre-recorded, playing from a gramophone. People feared that a lot of jobs in the entertainment industry and beyond would be replaced by technology, a lot like what’s going on now," Kristian Bell explains on the new single and album title.
Talking Machine is out on 10 October via Alcopop! Records, and is available to pre-order now.
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