The Dream Machine - Small Time MonstersSmall Time Monsters, the second full length album from The Dream Machine, is set to be released this April on Run On Records Modern Sky. If 2022s critically acclaimed debut album Thank God! Its The Dream Machine was their first and most wild child, then Small Town Monsters is its refined younger sibling. The psychedelia, euphoric choruses, flashes of surf guitar and B movie references are all there, amongst the familiar reflections of life in their

a pop-punk pop at the establishment

unmasked by flourishes

Reflecting

the album finds Strom exploring the darker corridors of human mythology under the influence of vampiric lore

They set about to capture it

Debut album on Spacebomb

it’s a mighty fine piece of work that more than holds its own

a performer bruised by the claws of the star-maker machine

"Elastic Rock" is just a gorgeous electric blues track

Van Houten balloon*

until the listener returns earthbound

and downright adorable music in recent memory