I found out about Thinking Machines a while back from the always excellent site, Built On A Weak Spot. I never posted anything on them but I recently listened to the band’s 2008 album, A Complete Record of Urban Archaeology once again and just had to write something up. The band plays a melodic brand of mathy post-punk that fans of the DC sound should fall in love with rather easily. Did J. Robbins produce this (I don’t have a physical copy. Thanks eMusic)? It kind of has that slick yet powerful sound to it. If anybody remembers Actionslacks, I swear these vocals sound remarkably similar to that guy. And oddly enough I think Robbins produced an Actionslacks record. Anyway, back to Thinking Machines. The band was recording for their next album in late 2009 so hopefully we see something new in 2010.

Thinking Machines “Urban Archaeologist”