Obits - Machines

What this video is

Released in September 2013 on Sub Pop Records, 'Machines' belongs to Obits' third and final studio album Bed & Bugs. The band was composed of veterans of foundational post-hardcore and garage punk acts including Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Edsel, and Girls Against Boys, embedding the video firmly within a lineage of informed, critically respected underground rock. The understated visual approach — warm, unhurried,…

Why it matters

As a video artifact from a flagship Sub Pop garage-punk act, 'Machines' documents the visual vocabulary of post-punk revivalism in the early 2010s Brooklyn underground — specifically the rejection of high-production aesthetics in favor of warmth, stillness, and raw compositional restraint. It…