DWELLERS: Echoes And Dust Premieres Corrupt Translation Machine From Salt Lake City Progressive Blues Rock Outfit Featuring Members Of Iota, Failure, More; Record To Drop This Friday On Small Stone Recordings

Echoes And Dust is currently streaming Corrupt Translation Machine, the new full-length from Salt Lake City-based progressive blues rock outfit, DWELLERS. The premiere comes on the eve of the record’s official release Friday, May 23rd through Small Stone Recordings. The gripping, nine-track offering marks the band’s first new output in over a decade.

Writes Echoes And Dust, “Corrupt Translation Machine sees the band return, sounding better and more triumphant than ever. With this collection of songs, DWELLERS combine the darkest and heaviest material that they have ever recorded with their own sense of melody and the album sees the band reach even greater heights with their music.”

Stream DWELLERS Corrupt Translation Machine, exclusively at Echoes And Dust, HERE.

DWELLERS’ Corrupt Translation Machine will be released on CD, digital, and limited-edition vinyl.

Find all preorders at the Small Stone Recordings Bandcamp page HERE.

DWELLERS’ story has always been one of diversion and redirection. Begun in Salt Lake City by guitarist/vocalist Joey Toscano – also of Iota – the band’s 2012 debut, Good Morning Harakiri, and its 2014 follow-up, Pagan Fruit, helped establish a distinct creative voice in psychedelia and Americana-tinged blues rock, expressive and vulnerable in ways that heavy rock ‘n’ roll is rarely willing to be.

Corrupt Translation Machine, which brings bassist Oz Inglorious (Iota, ex-Bird Eater), drummer Kellii Scott (Failure), and pianist/synthesist Chase Cluff (Last) to a completely revamped four-piece lineup, is both a reinvention and continuation of DWELLERS’ purpose. The album lays claim to the heaviest sounds DWELLERS has yet produced and meets that head on with poppish fluidity and melodicism as the album sets out with “Headlines,” only to take greater risks later. Love and the potential of its loss meet with expansive, sometimes cinematic texturing, and just as Toscano led Iota into a career-defining reignition with 2024’s comeback LP, Pentasomnia, so too do DWELLERS declare themselves with Corrupt Translation Machine.

“In the context of the album, the Corrupt Translation Machine is the human being,” reveals Toscano. “The songs on this album seem to be mostly about impermanence, addiction, loss, love, and the intangibility of perception. I say ‘seem to’ because there was no contrived concept for the album to be one thing or another, and when I listen to it, I have a strong feeling that I’m interpreting it just the same as when I’m listening to someone else’s songs. I could tell you exactly what each song is about, but that would go against the title of the album.”

The evocative tapestry of DWELLERS’ sound has evolved in craft, intention and performance. It’s not just about having new people on board or about not sounding like Iota. Corrupt Translation Machine posits DWELLERS as a singular entity as it engages classic progressivism and breadth in the eleven-minute “Marigold (Heart Of Stone)” or shifts into the outright tonal crush of “The Beast” or the weighted push of “The Maze.” No one song is just one thing, however, and as DWELLERS bring together ideas from across a range of styles from space rock to dirt-coated grunge, the listening experience becomes less about genre and more about soul.

In this way, and despite the title, Corrupt Translation Machine could hardly communicate more clearly what and who DWELLERS are as a band. And more, it speaks to the greater ongoing thread of their progression, renewed after eleven years and somehow still right on time.

All songs on Corrupt Translation Machine were written, arranged, and produced by Joey Toscano. Drums were tracked at Akira Audio by Gabe Van Benschoten in Calabasas, California. Everything else recorded by Mike Sasitch at Man Vs. Music in Salt Lake City, Utah, mixed by Eric Hoegemyer at Tree Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York, and mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio Labs in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Artwork was handled by Dani Joy and layout by Alexander von Wieding.

Fans of Mad Season, Neil Young, Iota, Failure, David Gilmore, Radiohead, Queens Of the Stone Age, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, King Buffalo, and the like, pay heed.

Corrupt Translation Machine Track Listing:
1. Headlines
2. Spiral Vision
3. Old Ways
4. The Beast
5. Inside Infinity
6. The Maze
7. The Sermon
8. Marigold (Heart of Stone)
9. Made (Psych Ward Mix)

“The songs are simple, but the deep level of emotion is not something so easily accomplished. At times, it makes me yearn for something more…maybe even something better than I have. At other times, it makes me a bit sad to settle for what I have, which is my truth. Maybe through, it’s not so bad? As the album fades away, I make a vow that I will box that feeling of longing and throw away the key.” — Metal Temple

“Corrupt Translation Machine doesn’t just mark a return—it redefines DWELLERS as one of the most original and emotionally articulate acts in the heavy underground. This is an album that rewards attention, reveals more with every spin, and dares to be both intellectually challenging and soul-stirring. Fans of Mad Season, Pink Floyd, King Buffalo, Failure, and Neil Young will find echoes here—but ultimately, this is DWELLERS’ world, and we’re just lucky to step inside for a while.” — Jace Media Music

DWELLERS:
Joey Toscano – guitars, vocals, synth, Rhodes piano
Oz Inglorious – bass
Kellii Scott – drums
Chase Cluff – synthesizers, Rhodes piano

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