
<p class="bodytext">Excerpt: "What elevates City Of Satellites' dream pop above  others' takes on the style is the urgency driving the nine songs on <em>Machine  Is My Animal</em>, the group's follow-up to its debut EP <em>The Spook</em>...  Though the group includes only two members, Adelaide resident Jarrod  Manuel (vocals, guitars, synthesizers) and Sydney-based Thomas  Diakomichalis (drums, synthesizers, programming), <em>Machine Is My  Animal </em>nevertheless comes off sounding like songs played by a live  band... Listening to the album, it quickly becomes  clear that shoegaze is an obvious wellspring for the group, but one  also hears traces of both '80s synth-pop (OMD, for example) and New Wave  in City Of Satellites' pristine, analogue sound."</p>
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