Join Rare Earth on Monday, August 10th at 11am to hear his recent talk with L.A. band, Automatic. Catch the group at this year’s Outside Lands Festival on August 8th and later this year at The Independent in SF on October 13th.
Automatic first met while immersed in LA’s DIY music scene and started jamming together in 2017. They released their debut album Signal in 2019 and began touring internationally, opening for acts like Bauhaus. In 2022, they shared the stage with Tame Impala, Parquet Courts and IDLES. Their second album Excess released in 2022 and the band’s latest album, Is It Now?, is out now.
For Is It Now?, Automatic collaborated with the producer Loren Humphrey (Cameron Winter , 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”) — The latest album 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.
