The Dream Machine - Fort Perch Rock (2026)

The Dream Machine is back with their third studio album, Fort Perch Rock following a successful few years of UK shows, multiple BBC 6 Music airplays (including a feature on Maida Vale with Steve Lamacq), and festival appearances at Kendal Calling, The Great Escape, and Sound City.

This Wirral five-piece has established itself as one of the most exciting new acts in the northern guitar music scene. Often compared to bands like King Gizzard, their live shows are chaotic, euphoric, and impossible to ignore. They have supported The Coral and The Lathums and gained recognition from Radio X and BBC Introducing.

Fort Perch Rock marks a new but familiar chapter for the band. The album is bold, cinematic, and deeply rooted in their origins. Named after the iconic New Brighton landmark, it serves as a gritty love letter to seaside life, brimming with raw emotion and fuzz-soaked guitars.

The Dream Machine is not just following trends, they are forging their own path, and it leads to Fort Perch Rock.

These days, in an infinite musical universe, it’s not enough to simply make good music (which is hard enough). If you don’t have much luck or the right connections, it’s a matter of hard work to be heard. UK garage-psych quintet The Dream Machine is living proof that this can pay off, as the audience and the praise grew with every performance where they played songs from their debut LP (Thank God It’s The Dream Machine) and its follow-up (Small Time Monsters).

With their third full-length album (Fort Perch Rock, named after the coastal defense battery built 200 years ago to protect the Port of Liverpool)—they call it “a gritty love letter to seaside life, brimming with raw emotion and fuzz-soaked guitars” (citing The Lemon Twigs, Felt, The Strokes, Television, and The Walkmen, but also Phil Spector’s productions, as inspirations)—they continue their upward trend. Guitars still roar like the tide, but the twelve new songs are a bit warmer and more controlled (call it maturity), resulting in a magnetic effect that reflects the band name to a greater extent.