Devon’s enigmatic alt‑rock collective Gravity Machine have never been a band to colour inside the lines. Hailing from the wilds of Dartmoor and the creative sprawl of Totnes, they’ve built a reputation as the best cult band you’ve never heard of, a group whose music blends alt‑folk, electronica, hard rock, metal and widescreen cinematic textures into something unmistakably their own.
Their 2020 debut Red earned critical acclaim and a fiercely loyal following, and since then they’ve been quietly releasing singles that rack up thousands of views while performing a handful of intimate, carefully curated live shows.
Now they’re back with their most ambitious work yet.
“Ally The Truth” isn’t a single, it’s more a journey. A dramatic, emotionally rich piece that charts the arc of a relationship from first spark to conflict, collapse and reconnection, it’s a song built on tension, tenderness and hope.
Composer and producer Niall Parker describes it as a labour of love that took years to complete, driven by the desire to capture both the depth of its emotional landscape and the simplicity of the human truths at its core.
The result is a track that moves like weather, complete with Intense, storm‑lit passages, delicate, introspective moments and a breathtaking harmonic outro led by vocalists Yunala Songweaver and Parker - It’s Gravity Machine at their most expansive — and their most vulnerable.
“Ally The Truth” features an impressive cast of collaborators, each adding their own colour to the song’s shifting moods:
Mike Malyan — drums (Monuments / TesseracT)
Ben Roberts — cello (Silver Moth)
Flo Fields — violin
Beatrix Hammond — backing vocals
The production team is equally stacked, with Peter Miles, Niall Parker and Izzy Bard behind the desk, and mastering handled by Stardelta Mastering in Devon.
In a move that feels perfectly in character, Gravity Machine are releasing the single exclusively on Bandcamp. No Spotify. No Apple Music. No algorithmic churn. No bullshit. Just a direct connection between the band and the people who care enough to seek them out.
👉 Listen / buy from 18 June: https://gravitymachine.bandcamp.com/album/ally-the-truth
Once the single drops, the band will retreat back into their Dartmoor hideaway to finish work on their long‑awaited second album — a project that, if “Ally The Truth” is any indication, is shaping up to be something special.
Gravity Machine remain one of the UK’s most intriguing underground acts: ambitious, uncompromising and quietly brilliant. “Ally The Truth” only strengthens that reputation.