Today, Irish indie favorites Soda Blonde are thrilled to share ‘Bad Machine’, the first single from the band’s upcoming Dream Big album, due for release on September 8.
The record’s angular and broad-shouldered lead single ‘Bad Machine’ leans into self-acceptance, but it does not do so unilaterally. “We can be slaves to our own impulses,” guitarist Adam O’Regan says of the turbulent, sonically charged song. “This idea that ‘every part of me is a bad machine breaking everything all the time, every part of me has been wired to repeat, I’ve got a bad desire by design,’ it’s this idea of recognizing that this is just a part of who you are and going with that; but it’s a double-edged sword. Sometimes taking a chance, being spontaneous and taking a risk – they’re not always the safest moves to make, but that propensity to dare is what makes us great. We wouldn’t exist without it.”
Dream Big, the Irish band’s upcoming second studio album, is far more than a collection of catchy and cathartic pop songs; it’s a mantra – a mission statement from four lifelong friends. It’s their promise to themselves, and a message to all who come along for the ride: A reminder that life is precious, fragile, and fleeting, so we might as well dream big and hold nothing back. Epic in size and intimate in scope, Dream Big holds a microscope in one hand and a mirror in the other as our innermost thoughts and feelings get a soundtrack of their very own.
Dream Big:
- Midnight Show
- Bad Machine
- Boys
- Dream Big
- Space Baby
- WWDWD
- An Accident
- My First Name
- Why Die For Danzig
- Less Than Nothing
- Going Out
