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“The band has always been more than our individual egos; we’re no less The Secret Machines now than we’ve ever been,” says singer/bassist/keyboardist Brandon Curtis.

When his brother, guitarist/vocalist Ben Curtis, left the band to focus on his band School of Seven Bells in early 2007, Brandon and drummer Josh Garza knew this didn’t mean the end. Rather than pull the plug, they carried on with their towering third album, Secret Machines. Longtime friend Phil Karnats, who played with Ben in the Polyphonic Spree precursor Tripping Daisy, was installed as permanent guitarist. “He’s an equal third member, musically,” says Josh, who says Karnats was a part of this record’s earliest sessions. “Ben is obviously irreplaceable,” adds Brandon, “but the transition to Phil has been very easy.” The resulting album is, per Josh, the one they’ve “always wanted to make.”

Secret Machines is out now on the band's own TSM Recordings in cooperation with World's Fair Label Group.