Label – Self Released
Release Date – April 11th 2025
Genre – Power Pop Rock
Members:
Chris Catalyst , Lead Vocals, Guitar,
Davros , Guitar, Backing Vocals,
Pete Human , Bass, Backing Vocals,
Wayne Insane , drums,
Tracklisting:
- Everything
- Back In The Back Of Beyond
- Black And White
- Canaries In The Coalmine
- If I’m Gonna Fight Myself, I’ll Never Win
- Nature and Nurture
- Home
- We Don’t Have Much But It’s Ours
- The Lovers And The Lost
- The Great Indoors
- They’re Coming To Get You
- Beautiful Day
My goodness, how time flies. Is it really 12 years since I first came across this rather excellent combo all decked out in black suits with white ties, playing the sort of rock music that was and remains a guaranteed pogo-athon. The album that drew me in was ‘Remain In Hope’ and was chock full of anthemic tunes, ear worm riffs and choruses and somehow brought sunshine into your life whether you asked it to or not. Pretty impressive for a garage band, self financed, self managed and self promoted. It’s the sort of setup that would see the following conversation between a young fan and their Mum. “Mum, I wanna buy Eureka Machines” only to hear “We have Eureka Machines at home”. Except in this case, they really do have the ‘Eureka Machines at home’ (future album title) and they’re the real deal.
Everything this band does smacks of smartness, a willing to engage with and grow a fiercely loyal fan base and most importantly a desire to deliver the goods every they get together. With just six albums in total (including this one) since 2008, the band might not be the most prolific of artists when it comes to churning out content but the content that does get released immediately hits the gold standard mark and thankfully, ‘Everything’ gives us… well… ‘Everything’ we were hoping for.
The album opens with the title track, pushing aside any doubts you might have given it’s some 7 years since predecessor ‘Victories’ came out.
The old adage of “there ain’t no power pop rock tune like a Eureka Machines power pop rock tune” that I believe was carved into stone tablets before being handed to Moses to spread the word around the North of England, stands true to this day. From the riffs, the beats to the overarching sense of comfort that you get from knowing that this is going to be great from the off, it’s easy to understand why then I’m writing this with a knowing smile on my face.
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The band, having played together from the time Moses spread the word (maybe) are so in tune with each other than they can only be described as tighter than a Yorkshireman’s wallet – but in a good way!
For those people to whom the Eureka Machines are a ‘new’ thing, if Green Day had been influenced by Merseybeat bands instead of the New York Dolls, then you’d start to get a sense of what Eureka Machines have to offer. There is a definitive tinge to the band’s music that smacks of musical history and pedigree but still feels fresh and modern.
For those that know the band well (and I’ve got a lot of music pals who swear by Catalyst & Co.) they’ll probably scoff at my comparisons and suggest that there is so much more to the band than I’ve suggested. However, at its heart Eureka Machines is a band that generates massive earworms, huge choruses and if you’ve ever seen them live, a performance capability that sees every audience member walking out of the venue with the biggest shit -eating grin imaginable.
Highlights include ‘Canaries in the Coalmine’, ‘Nature and Nurture’ and ‘We Don’t Have Much, But It’s Ours’ and I would stress that those choices are purely on the strength of impact in my head. Like many bands on the scene, Eureka Machines also have a great method of telling stories and songs like ‘If I’m Gonna Fight Myself, I’ll Never Win’ draw you into the lyrical content as well as the music. The same can be said for ‘Home’ and ‘The Great Indoors’. Sit down with the lyric sheet, recognise how much relates to you, wipe away a tear of gratitude that someone gets ‘you’. Eureka Machines does.
The 12 tracks finish with ‘Beautiful Day’ which, whilst not a cover of Levellers classic tune, hits hard, fast and with the perfect level of energy that left me smiling as mentioned above.
Loving this… just off down the road for a bit of a dance with this turned up loud.
Score 9/10
Reviewed by: Adrian Hextall
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Eureka Machines will be touring the new album in May – Details and Ticket Info Below:
Thurs 17 April: MANCHESTER Night & Day
Fri 18 April: YORK Fulford Arms
Sat 19 April: HUDDERSFIELD Parish (Probably in the old BrewDog venue opposite)
Fri 2 May: WOLVERHAMPTON KK’s Steel Mill
Sat 3 May: NOTTINGHAM The Bodega
Sun 4 May: LONDON The 100 Club
… and bear in mind that Mon 5 May is a Bank Holiday. Hooray.
Tropical Contact are supporting at all dates aside from Huddersfield.
Ticket links and all that are on our ‘Gigs‘ page up there.
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