title: Machines of Loving Grace (album)
text: # Machines of Loving Grace (album)
  
  Machines of Loving Grace is an album by the American band Machines of Loving Grace, released in 1991. The opening track contains a sample from Devo's 1981 single "Through Being Cool". The band supported the album by touring with Swans.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  
  The St. Petersburg Times wrote: "Although the harsh reality of industrial dance music runs amok in 'Burn Like Brilliant Trash (At Jackie's Funeral)', 'Cicciolina', which follows, is gentle, as close to balladry as tech-heads have ever roamed." The Washington Post deemed the band "a synth-based trio that occasionally approximates a hip-hop swing but often sounds like one of those British electro-dance combos of a decade ago." The Oregonian opined that "the group veers from cluttered industrial noise constructs (akin to Skinny Puppy, though milder) to glossy, if eccentric, dance-rock."
  
  AllMusic wrote that "Pretty Hate Machine-style synths are scattered liberally across the album, but the most part it's surprisingly calm and restrained."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks by Machines of Loving Grace
  
  * "Burn Like Brilliant Trash (At Jackie's Funeral)" – 3:12
  * "Cicciolina" - 5:27
  * "Rite of Shiva" - 4:04
  * "Lipstick 66" - 4:53
  * "X-Insurrection" – 3:56
  * "Content" - 3:53
  * "Weather Man" - 3:51
  * "Terminal City" - 3:34
  * "Number Nine" - 1:50
  