"Cruel Machine" is Melbourne trio Greyscale's debut full-length album and is an extension of the sonic tapestry of 2001's self-released "Scientifically Rough" EP.

Emotionally evocative, cinematic and forcefully beautiful; "Cruel Machine" transports the listener into a distinctive mood zone which continually winds and weaves throughout the entire recording. From sparse to dense arrangements, 'Cruel Machine' menaces and appeases the senses. Most tracks are spirited improvisations, recorded live and subsequently built up with additional instrumentation and supplemented with atmospheric field-recordings. The results has roots in the beautiful noise of progenitors Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, and will appeal to fans of psychedelic power-merchants like Bardo Pond, Kinski and Paik.

"Cruel Machine" was entirely self-produced by Greyscale, free from the constraints of on-the-clock studio time. The long gestation period allowed the band the freedom to experiment with instrumentation such as vibraphone, acoustic guitar, congas, melodica, short wave radio, Kimbal entertainer organ, and double bass. Many field-recordings were employed such as industrial sounds captured on mini disc during a field trip to Melbourne's industrial precinct Dandenong. Of course there is the continued presence of previously explored instruments such as tamboura, vintage keyboards, and analogue synthesizers and the ever-present hum of tape echo and dirty analogue effects.