Machine Youth is the debut release from Palermo, Douglas Whates's electro-skewed alias. Title track Machine Youth pairs with the more experimental Lead-in/out. Both tracks explore the tension between analogue nostalgia and digital emergence. Blended sounds of early computer games, degraded tapes, vinyl artefacts, and the transition from analogue to digital nod to a micro-generation born in the early '80s. It reflects on simpler times and pays homage to those of us who straddled two technological eras and now find ourselves negotiating the onset of a third.

Available to pre-order now, and released on the 10th October.