'Feed The Machine' single

Red's latest album Until we have Faces, released in February, is a tantalizing mix of beautiful vocals and screams by Michael, amazing drumming and chord mashing by Joe and the Twins, respectively, and chorale and instrumental backgrounds. The message of their music is subtle but undeniable, and their track "Feed The Machine" is perhaps the most pointed song from the album.

The music video, released online in early June, starts with a solid two minutes of cinematic introduction before the haunting bass, string, and scream intro heralds the music.

The ominous, repeating bass riff that carries the song gives way to the pealing, hope-inducing harmony in the chorus just long enough for you to digest the point before the condemning lyrics return to expose the numb state of conformity perceived by the artists.

Band member Anthony Armstrong described the song himself as "more of a metaphor... The machine is the world, and how we're being kind of fed into these ideals and the way a lot of people are susceptible to those ideals."

He says, "It was such a deep and aggressive song, and it's what we feel like we're trying to accomplish as a band. We're stomping out those worldly ideals and inspiring people to be who they're supposed to be."

The song draws to its conclusion by quietly murmuring the "machine's" persistent, "Prepare to sleep," before Michael opens up and screams the desperate opposite, "Wake up! Wake up, and Kill the Machine!"

Finally the song ebbs away with an 'ooh'-ing choir and soft strings.

Bascially, it's epic.