Dwellers bring a range of styles from space rock to dirt-coated grunge, the listening experience becomes less about genre and more about soul.

Dwellers' story has always been one of diversion and redirection. Begun in Salt Lake City by guitarist/vocalist Joey Toscano - also of Iota - the band's 2012 debut, Good Morning Harakiri, and its 2014 follow-up, Pagan Fruit, helped establish a distinct creative voice in psychedelia and Americana-tinged blues rock, expressive and vulnerable in ways that heavy rock and roll is rarely willing to be.

Corrupt Translation Machine, which brings bassist Oz Inglorious (Iota, ex-Bird Eater), drummer Kellii Scott (Failure) and pianist/synthesist Chase Cluff (Last) to a completely revamped four-piece lineup, is both a reinvention and continuation of Dwellers' purpose. The album lays claim to the heaviest sounds Dwellers have yet produced, and meets that head on with poppish fluidity and melodicism as the album sets out with 'Headlines,' only to take greater risks later. Love and the potential of its loss meet with expansive, sometimes cinematic texturing, and just as Toscano led Iota into a career-defining reignition with 2024's comeback LP, Pentasomnia, so too do Dwellers declare themselves with Corrupt Translation Machine.

The evocative tapestry of Dwellers' sound has evolved in craft, intention and performance. It's not just about having new people on board or about not sounding like Iota. Corrupt Translation Machine posits Dwellers as a singular entity as it engages classic progressivism. No one song is just one thing, however, and as Dwellers bring together ideas from across a range of styles from space rock to dirt-coated grunge, the listening experience becomes less about genre and more about soul.

In this way, and despite the title, Corrupt Translation Machine could hardly communicate more clearly what and who Dwellers are as a band. And more, it speaks to the greater ongoing thread of their progression, renewed after 11 years and somehow still right on time.

Track Listing

• Headlines
• Spiral Vision
• Old Ways
• The Beast
• Inside Infinity
• The Maze
• The Sermon
• Marigold (Heart of Stone)
• Made (Psych Ward Mix)

Additional Details

Label: Small Stone Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Run Time: 51:36 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/23/25

UPC: 709764120121