Royworld – Man In the Machine

Released: 3^rd March 2008

Record label: Virgin Records, (distributed by EMI)

Brilliant. I’ll be playing this on my show. Although at times the vocals verge on sounding like those of a death metal track, Man In The Machine gets away with sounding metallic because this obviously suits the title. Sounding like a more mainstream The Divine Comedy mangled through a machine with lilts of The Killers, Royworld capture the current indie rock scene perfectly with Man In The Machine. The first B-side is the full length version of the track offering a whole 15 seconds more than the Radio Edit. Thrilling. The second B-side is more interesting – an instrumental version of the track and it’s on listening this that one appreciates the richness of the strings section incorporated seamlessly into your keyboardy/pianoy/guitary muggubins.