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Dreamstates

by Machines of Man

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1.
Dreamstates 02:12
I can see a face in a mirror, far away. It moves to me. "I've been waiting so long to find you." My self remains, pulled into the surface, as we float in circles. Climb into the sky, remake what's me. Cease, to sleep.
2.
Symbiosis 07:16
Breathe me into loneliness. Become the forming walls of absolution. In the wake of curiosity, will I rise into discovery? In passing time, I see the shape of memories swallow the founts of the wanting. Lead me into severance, ascend the winding way of all creation. Climb into the sky, remake what’s me. Dismember the face of this nightmare. The thought of influence is all-controlling, reduced to human form to fight the face of innocence. I see the thing inside begin to drift away. Of what I was before is now forgotten. This mind is torn apart. All thought is thrown away. Gaze down and reach the central point of broken consciousness. Composed of sight reveals myself in singularity. Constricted now, it withers as it rips and winds. In atrophy, eradication strangles my mind. This illusion. This delusion. How have I come to be? What place is this? Have I died? Or, do I linger? How have I come to be? In waves I shift. In this mind I live, and I linger. Now, I have come to see this face is fear. Become life inside, and try to begin. My flesh is ripped away. Falling into the endless space I’ve made, moving forward. Feeling the traces of dreams, the night embraces me.
3.
Days Later 04:21
Reversion takes me forth. A figure folds out to bind my body. Falling in a rapture of phasing memories, hopeless entities of light rush outward. A hollow face of twilight falls from the sky. With lightless gaze, it’s reach is strangling me. The flow of life begins to draw in pulses from the force of my breaking form. Yield from the wings I’ve thrown away. The cancer grows in me. I can’t remain (I can’t go on in circles). I have to know if there’s still time. Pry these nails out from my skin. In ways, I’m never there. (Erase what we are.) Pass the time. In the end, truth is something I have never recognized. My substance flows in reverse with the flood. Help me break this ripline. The past is carved in blood. The parasite renews. I can’t climb out from the walls of this labyrinth. Rend the thread I wind. A breath is ripped out from my chest. Sailing thoughts come through. The hollow face is fading. Take into the sky. I see a light before me. I can feel my heart.
4.
Cryogenesis 04:01
Crashing to the cold hard ground, she tears out of the glass. Did heaven fail at last? The words she can’t contain. In sweeping ways, she melts along with me. Through a memory I pass, into a nightmare she concedes. Ebbing light is holding me back from exposing life from the outside. Grasping and screaming, she cries at an absent aide. Blood releases as time insures her fate. Blackness falls against a fading, wavering infection of life. She strains inside, returned to a loss of focus. Collapsing light... My mind is swept away, drifting with the tides. The nightmare fades, and so must I. Cloaked in the silence as I hide away. Then, from the sun, is a face that I’ve come to know in this time. Softly, she leads me to fly through skies, as we float in circles. “Cease to sleep.”
5.
Wake up. I’m falling out of place and a shape that I once was. Find out that we all drink from a poison, and it kills me too. Hey. I’m still here. Wait. I’m still here. And we race- give me the face of change. I am alive in place. No one will know if I’m me anymore. Fill in the space and slowly burn. Pass it away. And with pace, I let the face of change become the lie I hate. How can I know if I’ll wake up? Wake up. Wake up.
6.
A vault of glass retracts in design. With cold breath I stand to walk in emerald light. Lost in my reverie, I move on as the cage remains. Now, with heavy eyes I come to see a palm of fog. In a sea of broken trees and fields of green long, forgotten, within the mist, silence welcomes me, entwined with twisting shadows. Upon decrepit ground, a hand extends. “Guide me to rebirth.” A giants step swallows the earth below, it’s gaping stare turns to mine. In massive stride, the titan comes to me. In the shadow of my plight, I rise to face this endless might. Lost within this helpless night, my mind lets loose with endless light. As force collides in sequence, my impulse implodes. “Take hold of this conscience.” Like from the worlds before, my sense is ripped away. I can’t escape myself, thrown down a winding way. One thing remains… What is becoming of me? In this sea of endless sleep, the narrow walls of doubt surround me. A trace of myself still remains, pulling at this ghostly surface. From dying moonlight, descends the faded mirror. Refracting veils confine me. A demon's vessel, my soul entwined. I am the colossus.
7.
Fractals 04:16
Cast out from the false delirium as a new day takes its form. Composure makes its way as eyes retake a sense of reason. As thoughts, recurring, shake my mind to turn away. Inside, is the answer, needing, hoping, tearing at this breach. In seasons, change is all I need. These circles form as one direction. The occult exposed- what is the reason I have to exist? Unfolding, a flow of memories I became expand in transformation. Through the skies I see. This change won’t end, in spite of my hesitations. I can’t try to know exactly who I am, if I can’t move on. I move to the light of the sun, washing away these empty senses. A likeness shines in brilliant energy. Reflections pose as the mask I have come to be now opens. Hollow, encased inside, is the answer, waiting. The mirror was always there. The mirror was always there. These thoughts are as one. I am the reason I have to exist. I have to exist. As silence ends, my life can begin. Myself remains here, left at the surface. Intention waits beyond a place that I can see.

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Machines of Man is:

Austin Bentley - Vocals
Aaron Loredo - Guitar
Chris Aguilar - Guitar
Rocky Schofield - Bass
Jonathan Ramanujam - Drums

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released June 27, 2017

Mixed and Mastered by Jamie King
All music written, produced and performed by Machines of Man
Drums recorded at Man vs. Music with Greg Shaw
Vocal Production by Austin Bentley
Instrument Production by Jonathan Ramanujam
Artwork by Juan Orozco

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Machines of Man is:

Austin Bentley
Aaron Loredo
Chris Aguilar
Rocky Schofield
Jonathan Ramanujam

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