Ping Machines – Down to the other
The Alpine village of Muotathal might seem an unlikely birthplace for a rock outfit trafficking in the kind of primal, gut-level intensity that Ping Machines have been peddling since 2009, yet perhaps the isolation of central Switzerland's mountain valleys provides exactly the sort of gestation chamber required for music this uncompromising. Their latest single, "Down to the Other," released this past August, finds the five-piece honing their self-described "dirt rock" aesthetic into something simultaneously more refined and more feral than one might think possible.