Cogitation by Steamstruck

# COGITATION

When the steam dies down and the gears slow their endless churning, there's a moment between the chaos and the calm where everything just... breathes. That's where we found "Cogitation."

Folks have come to expect the wild side of steampunk country—the airship chases and mechanical rodeos—but we wanted to show y'all the quieter corners of our clockwork world. This ain't your typical Steamstruck album. It's what happens when the dust settles on the frontier and the brass cogs catch the light of dawn.

We holed up in an old converted windmill outside Austin last winter, surrounded by antique timepieces and vintage machinery. The rhythmic ticking became our metronome as we crafted these eight tracks, each one flowing into the next like the steady current of a gear-driven river.

"Valley Gears Awake" came to me one morning when I spotted dew glistening on an old weathervane. There's something magical about that first light hitting metal that's been cold all night. We kept the picking gentle, like the sun doesn't want to rush anything awake.

For "River Cog Song," we actually recorded near Whiskey Creek, where the water runs over these old mill wheels. Jimmy swears he could hear the creek playing its own melody through those rusted spokes, so we tried to capture that conversation between water and metal.

"Tower Heart Beats" might be the heart of this album—it's about finding your place in time's grand machinery. We brought in Eliza with her cello for that one, and the moment she drew her bow across those strings, we knew we'd found the sound of time itself.

This ain't just music for your ears—it's a landscape for your mind. A place where you can wander through valleys of gently turning gears, where lamplighters bring warm glows to copper streets, and where even the most complicated machinery eventually finds its rest.

So pull up a chair on your porch, pour yourself something amber, and let "Cogitation" carry you to the quiet side of our steampunk frontier—where every tick and whir tells a story, and even machines know the value of taking it slow.

Y'all ready for a different kind of journey? The gears are turning, but this time, they're in no hurry.

Steamstruck concept fuses the twang of country music with steampunk's machinery and Victorian flair to tell stories of high-flying airship escapades, love in a world of clockwork, and the rugged life of gear-driven cowboys. Songs feature steam-powered rodeos, time-defying romances, and outlaws with a taste for mechanical heists, all set against a backdrop of a gritty, industrialized Old West.