The Clockworks unveil new single Magnificent Seven

The Clockworks by Nicholas O’Donnell

The Clockworks’ track was premiered on Steve Lamacq’s 6 Music show.

The Clockworks have unveiled their latest single Magnificent Seven with new album The Entertainment due for release on March 27th.

“The musical bones of Magnificent Seven came well before the album was started,” James McGregor has revealed.

“To free ourselves from the patterns of the first album, we wrote loads of demos on Logic using only a midi keyboard, a Juno and a mic with loads of auto tune. Somehow the music for this song made it through that process and into the album.”

“Lyrically, I’d had this idea for ages of using the ‘Wild West’ as a metaphor for writing a song about technocracy in the modern West, using the criminals that control so much of our daily lives as cowboys.”

Then I overheard an economist refer to the biggest companies in tech as the ‘Magnificent Seven’. It was one of those ‘eureka’ moments, the comparison between these companies, and the characters in the film ‘The Magnificent Seven’. Not only the fact that it’s a Western and that they’re cowboys, but that the film is about the cowboys coming to save this village.