The Young Machines

The Young Machines
Studio album by
Her Space Holiday
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2003 (2003-09-30)
GenreIndie pop
Length44:28
LabelMush Records
ProducerMarc 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.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStar
Entertainment WeeklyA−
Pitchfork6.9/10
Stylus MagazineC
Uncut4/10

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".

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

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

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States September 30, 2003 Mush Records CD MH-224
UK October 20, 2003 Wichita Recordings CD WEBB047CD
Europe October 20, 2003 Wichita Recordings CD VVR1024982
Japan January 21, 2004 & Records CD NPPX-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.