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SUMMARY:Automatic
LOCATION:Club Congress
DESCRIPTION:Doors 6pm | Show 7pm | Advance $24 / Day of Show $28 + Dice Fee
 s | 21+\n\nW/ Nuovo Testamento\n\nAutomatic make deviant pop music that cu
 ts through the brainrot. Balancing irreverence with sharp commentary\, the
  L.A. band approached their third album with a dark sense of humor and a r
 enewed sense of momentum. Izzy Glaudini (synths\, vocals) and Halle Saxon 
 (bass\, vocals) believe messages of change land best with a backbeat and a
  cheeky groove - and on their new album Is It Now?\, they ask us to confro
 nt the world’s oppressive structures with fresh urgency.\n\nFor Is It No
 w?\, Automatic collaborated with producer Loren Humphrey (Cameron Winter\,
  Nice As Fuck\, Arctic Monkeys)\, building on the minimalist\, danceable s
 ound of Signal and Excess. Where earlier records leaned more grid-based\, 
 this album was made live and loose - favoring long takes and a rhythm sect
 ion that breathes. Perky grooves and affable pop melodies act as a Trojan 
 horse for playful political commentary\; it may take a few listens to real
 ize that the pulsing bassline\, stabbing synths\, and sci-fi FX of ‘mq9
 ’ are meant to echo the sound of drone bombs.\n\nThe band wanted the rec
 ord to sit comfortably alongside artists like A Certain Ratio or Air. On 
 ‘Don’t Wanna Dance\,’ they nod to late-’70s British scenes shaped 
 by Caribbean music\, where dub collides with punk and funk slips into moto
 rik grooves. ‘Smog Summer’ draws inspiration from Patrick Cowley (also
  an influence on ‘NRG’ from Excess)\, grounding its environmental mess
 age in a disco thrum.\n\nUnsparing in their critique - of automated warfar
 e (‘mq9’)\, mindless consumerism (‘Is It Now?’)\, and the politica
 l influence of oil (‘The Prize’) - Is It Now? also offers ways forward
 : dancing\, resisting\, coming together\, falling in love. Like its title
 \, the album doesn’t claim to have all the answers\, but it might inspir
 e better questions - or at least get you dancing yourself awake while sear
 ching.\n\nAutomatic are touring the US and Canada this year.\n\nBoletos: h
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