Automatic is back. Izzy, Halle, and Lola return with their third album on Stones Throw: Is It Now?, a collection of songs the band describes as “deviant pop music that cuts through the brainrot.”
Listen: Automatic – Is It Now?
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For Is It Now?, Automatic collaborated with the producer Loren Humphrey (Cameron Winter, Nice As Fuck, Arctic Monkeys) to build on the sound of previous albums Signal and Excess – minimalist yet danceable songs. “I feel like this album displays all the different ways you can react to the current state of the world,” says Lola. While Automatic is unsparing, condemning automated warfare (“mq9”), mindless consumerism (“Is It Now?”), the political influence of oil (“The Prize”) — Is It Now? offers clues as to how we might respond: dancing, resisting, coming together, falling in love.
Like its title, Is It Now? doesn’t pretend to have all the answers, but it might just inspire you to ask better questions — or at least dance yourself awake in the search.
“The thing I think about the most on a day-to-day basis is: how do you have a sense of joy while the world seems to be collapsing, and you feel so powerless?” Izzy says, “I feel like, as American citizens, we have a responsibility to pull the levers to stop the machine. ‘Is It Now?’ is about trying to not feel like a victim in this environment. It’s important to still feel a sense of joy, even amongst all the horrible shit going on in the world.”
Automatic is co-headlining a tour with Sextile this fall. Tickets are on sale now.
Automatic On Tour: US Dates
Oct 1 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
Oct 3 – Dallas, TX – Studio at The Factory
Oct 4 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
Oct 5 – Austin, TX – Mohawk (Outside)
Oct 6 – El Paso, TX – The Lowbrow Palace
Oct 8 – Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
Oct 9 – Las Vegas, NV – Swan Dive
Oct 10 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
Oct 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Novo
Automatic On Tour: UK & Europe Dates
Nov 12 – Brighton, UK – Daltons
Nov 13 – London, UK – The Lexington
Nov 15 – Berlin, DE – Puschenfest
Nov 17 – Cologne, DE – Bumann & Sohn
Nov 18 – Amsterdam, NL – Toekomstmuziek
Nov 19 – Metz, FR – BAM
Nov 20 – Paris, FR – Petit Bain
Nov 21 – La Rochelle, FR – La Sirene
Nov 24 – Milan, IT – Circolo Arci Bellezza
Nov 25 – Prague, CZ – Bike Jesus
Nov 27 – Munich, DE – Milla
