String Machine, the jubilantly poppy, folk-rock-adjacent Pittsburgh Band To Watch, are again at this time with a brand new shock EP.

Flip Off Something On Once more is the group’s first launch since final yr’s nice Hallelujah Hell Yeah. It comprises three songs, beginning with “Misfire,” a shapeshifter that goes from sax-addled traditional rock to one thing like an digital pop meltdown. The moody and propulsive “Out Loud” ventures into the Pinegrove zone, however with a beautiful string part and interesting keyboard tone. “I See You The Identical” continues to toy round with String Machine’s signature sound, merging weblog rock and heartland rock in a means that jogs my memory of Empty Nation. All instructed, it’s fairly the spectacular set.

On Bandcamp, String Machine’s David Beck explains, “In August 2023, we went as much as my grandfather’s barn and recorded some songs we had been engaged on. No cellphone service within the Allegheny Nationwide Forest. Dozens of saddles within the rafters.” In a press launch, he provides, “We took a bit break from reveals to get our ft below us once more. ‘Flip off something on once more’ is a memento to hush the rat race of being in a band to return to a patiently inventive place. Within the broader sense, it’s a memento to hush the hustles of our lives typically to savor the extra vital issues.”

Extra on the barn, which is positioned within the Allegheny Nationwide Forest:

Grandpa Bob handed away on New 12 months’s Eve 2022, so it felt like a religious factor to be there with the band. We had been surrounded by cowboy decor, he had dozens of saddles hung within the rafters of the barn the place we recorded. No cellphone service, solely a VCR participant and copies of Meet The Mother and father, Star Wars: Phantom Menace, and Snow Day.

No cellphone service, mountain climbing trails for miles. A swimming gap down the grime highway, miles and miles of locations the place you may shut your eyes and solely hear the wind within the bushes. As the subsequent yr unfolds, we’re going to decide to the Bob Beck Barn being a sacred, remoted place for us to create and document.

Stream the EP beneath.