String Machine - Hallelujah Hell Yeah (2022) Hi-Res

David Beck was hiking through a thick forest, in January Poconos weather, on his own and without the proper clothes or gear. His phone was turned off, and he hadn’t told a lot of people back home in Pittsburgh where he was going. Fresh from a breakup, he needed to clear his head.
After a while, the trees thinned out, and suddenly he stood on the narrow patch of ground that marked the peak of a mountain. He could see for 18 miles. It was almost dead silent, save for the whip of the wind and the faint creaking of trees, and he was the only one there. He started to cry.

“When you’re face to face with it, it’s very overwhelming. You just start pouring emotion,” recalls Beck, frontman of the chamber-indie seven-piece String Machine. He’s vague on the details of what “it” is, preferring to keep that for himself. But, he says, it was a breakthrough, a moment that revealed to him the truth of what human connection really means.