The Dream Machine announces new album ‘Fort Perch Rock’ arriving February 27th, 2026 via Run On Records alongside infectious new single “Flowers On The Razor Wire,” a Berlin-written rush of radio-ready new wave rock referencing The Ramones. The Wirral peninsula based five-piece follows two underground long-players with their most uncompromising and ambitious collection yet, featuring the title track’s wheeling and wailing sprint through Jim Henson-inspired, organ-fired MC5 rapid punk/psych alongside this latest offering that pounds in on a slick of keys climbing steadily to meet a gilt-finished chorus easily mistaken for a Blondie heyday single. Songwriter and lead vocalist Zak McDonnell explains the track originated from a mysterious second-hand comic found in an antique shop, with the band shouting out lines and ideas while he sat with guitar before realizing it was some sort of erotic graphic novel, noting the song draws equally from The Ramones, The Strokes, Television and The Walkmen after traveling to Berlin intending to revisit the Ramones Museum only to find it gone. The 12-track album recorded and self-produced between studios on the Wirral and in Liverpool arrives on digital, CD and special edition colored vinyl with a limited band store-only butterfly effect vinyl version including a one-off glow in the dark 7″ EP of covers paying tribute to Motown girl group The Shirelles.