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Memories Of Machines Warm Winter on LP

Produced by Tim Bowness (No-Man) and Giancarlo Erra (Nosound), Warm Winter is the 10 track debut from Memories Of Machines. While occasionally drawing on the atmospheric nature of their main bands, MoM carves out a unique space for itself with an emphasis placed on direct song-writing and powerful instrumental arrangements as much as on mood.

Recorded in the UK, the US, Italy and Sweden, Warm Winter includes stellar guest contributions from the likes of Peter Hammill (Van Der Graaf Generator), Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, No-Man etc), Julianne Regan (All About Eve), Jim Matheos (OSI/Fates Warning) and Ricard Huxflux Nettermalm (Paatos).

Offering an ambitious yet accessible combination of epic art rock and bittersweet, singer/songwriter intimacy, the album contrasts rich melodies, soaring choruses and stunning guitar solos ("Warm Winter," "Before We Fall") with ethereal ambient experiments ("Lost And Found In The Digital World") and haunting, narrative-driven songs, such as the highly personal "Schoolyard Ghosts."

Shifting from the sweetly delirious optimism of "Change Me Once Again" and "Beautiful Songs You Should Know" to the desolate self-reflection of the closing electronica/chamber classical hybrid "At The Centre Of It All," Warm Winter is an astonishingly assured and emotionally cohesive debut that ably highlights the sympathetic musical chemistry between Bowness and Erra. The album was mixed by Steven Wilson and mastered by Jon Astley (The Who, Led Zeppelin, Tori Amos).

Memories Of Machines Warm Winter Track Listing:

1.  New Memories Of Machines
2.  Before We Fall
3.  Beautiful Songs You Should Know
4.  Warm Winter
5.  Lucky You, Lucky Me
6.  Change Me Once Again
7.  Something In Our Lives
8.  Lost And Found In The Digital World
9.  Schoolyard Ghosts
10. At The Centre Of It All