The body groans, the Achilles tendons pains. It was a strange state of being in which is The Shattered’s fourth album Mind Machine was created. The busy DIY collective AuGeil is in a coffin, alone again, the three of us in the moldy cellar in Winterthur Töss. New songs were released here from spring 2024 forged, and yes, the process couldn’t be described better. experimented, refined, discarded, and repeated again. The basis for negotiations: no comprehensive sweeping blows, but rather positioning to record observations. Pay homage to all those who organize a “silent protest” maintained, all those alienated “Nonsense Fighters”. This is new in the texts Approach cemented: sensory overload, loopholes, defensive architecture, digital skeletons – miniature reflections in 2025. In terms of ideas, this is based on a punk aesthetic like that of the Wipers (“Loopholes”) Homage) or Jens Rachut’s bands, but retains the mix of garage-psych and post-punk of the last albums. It’s a quirky thicket of references that the band is in created in the last decade. It takes 5 days of recording for an album, 13 songs for a good live set, at least 30 minutes for a record.