Love Sex Machine unveil unrelenting new single single, 'Body Probe'

Lille-based noise-rock stalwarts Love Sex Machine have released ‘BODY PROBE’ the second single from ‘Trve’, their third album and the band’s first full-length to be released by Berlin’s Pelagic Records on 12th April, 2024.

As some of the band’s first new music in eight years, ‘BODY PROBE’ does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s three minutes of relentless, noise-rock dirge that drills its way slowly but surely into your skull and proves they’ve lost none of their terrifying yet tongue-in-cheek prowess. A fight or flight adrenaline rush from start to finish, ‘BODY PROBE’ is as alarming as it is life-affirming and that’s exactly what Love Sex Machine want.

‘Trve’ is 10 eagerly-awaited tracks of revitalised righteous indignation, wry social commentary and, of course, unspeakably disgusting heaviness, but that’s not to say Love Sex Machine don’t take their craft seriously. From the outset, the album is testament to the band’s decade of experience as idiosyncratic veterans of the European sludge scene and the intervening years have seen the French four-piece trim the fat from their bones. Whilst the band have never sounded more abrasive, ‘Trve’ also introduces an intriguing, refined and undeniably ‘pop’ edge that adds an intriguing new element to the musical confrontation in which Love Sex Machine thrive.

Atmospheric intros, extraneous refrains and eerie, instrumental outros might all be classic hallmarks of heavy music but you’ll find none of that here. Much like ‘BODY PROBE’, most tracks on ‘Trve’ clock in at around three minutes and feature a rush of high-octane, doom metal riffs played in unsettlingly optimistic major keys, synth motifs that verge on the triumphant and, in a first for Love Sex Machine, vocal harmonies that lift the listener for a brief, beautiful moment before the next wave of groove-laden, nihilistic sludge forces you right back down to your knees.

An unashamedly monstrous offering, ‘Trve’ is Love Sex Machine springing a trap eight ugly years in the making, but one that’ll at least keep us torn between a rock and a hard place so we can appreciate the view of the oncoming apocalypse.

‘Trve’ is released on the 12th of April.

‘BODY PROBE’ is out now.