Vitalizing tunes that work faster than a stream of caffeine
25 September 2025
Band: AUTOMATIC
Who: Three splashy Los Angeles rock chicks. Izzy Glaudini, Halle Saxon, and
Lola Dompé (daughter of Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins. They got together
in 2017 and named themselves after a from the Go-Go‘s album Beauty and
the Beat from 1981.
Track: BLACK BOX
Final taster from their upcoming album Is It Now?, out this Friday.
The trio hasn’t wasted time since their formation. This is their 3rd
full-length in 5 years.
New album artwork
Glaudini: “The repetitive synth is supposed to suggest a plane gliding as it crashes, an alarm distress call. I was listening to the Leonard Cohen album The Future a lot around the time the lyrics were written.
It’s a pretty straightforward critique of people that have sold out on a large scale, specifically within creative industries. Thierry Mugler said, “art used to tell money what to do, now money tells art what to do” and the world is a less interesting place because of it.”
TUTV: I never thought a plane’s black box would ever be the topic of a song.
Whatever, the box produces some pretty funky dance-infused beats which are
ideal to get up and make your first moves of another day on this cursed planet.
Shake your pelvis, people. Boogie yourself out of bed. Run, run, run!