The Young Machines

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The Young Machines
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Studio album by
Her Space Holiday
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2003 (2003-09-30)
Genre Indie pop [1]
Length44:28
Label Mush Records
Producer Marc Bianchi
Her Space Holiday chronology
Manic Expressive
(2001)		The Young Machines
(2003)		The Young Machines Remixed
(2004)

The Young Machines is a studio album by Her Space Holiday. It was released on Mush Records on September 30, 2003.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly A− [3]
Pitchfork 6.9/10 [4]
Stylus Magazine C [5]
Uncut 4/10 [6]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, The Young Machines received an average score of 73, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Kenyon Hopkin of AllMusic praised the album's "lush IDM-powered indie pop." [2] Kilian Murphy of Stylus Magazine wrote: "An intriguing mixture of laptop-electronica and emotional indie song writing, this is engagingly quirky stuff." [5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Marc Bianchi.

No.TitleLength
1."The Young Machines"4:25
2."Something to Do with My Hands"3:33
3."Tech Romance"4:20
4."Sleepy California"5:00
5."Japanese Gum"3:48
6."Meet the Pressure"4:47
7."My Girlfriend's Boyfriend"4:31
8."The Luxury of Loneliness"4:40
9."Girl Problem"4:15
10."From South Carolina"5:10
Total length:44:28

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United StatesSeptember 30, 2003 [7] Mush Records CDMH-224
UKOctober 20, 2003 [7] Wichita Recordings CDWEBB047CD
EuropeOctober 20, 2003 [7] Wichita RecordingsCDVVR1024982
JapanJanuary 21, 2004 [7] & RecordsCDNPPX-31

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Young Machines by Her Space Holiday". Metacritic . CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Hopkin, Kenyon. "The Young Machines - Her Space Holiday". AllMusic . Archived from the original on January 22, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ Weingarten, Marc (October 24, 2003). "The Young Machines Review". Entertainment Weekly . Time Inc. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Bowers, William (January 15, 2004). "Her Space Holiday:The Young Machines". Pitchfork . Archived from the original on March 3, 2013. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Murphy, Kilian (December 8, 2003). "Her Space Holiday – The Young Machines". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on May 10, 2012. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Her Space Holiday – The Young Machines". Uncut . Time Inc. UK. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "MH-224 Her Space Holiday - The Young Machines". Mush Records . Archived from the original on July 24, 2008. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
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