It has a hastily played guitar "represent everything that we loved playing as kids'. "The Boy Who Could Fly" displayed the band's punk roots. It was produced using a Stratocaster played through a custom-made amplifier resulting in the "glassy and unique sound we were looking for". He called the guitar tone "one of my favorite" from the album. "Southern Constellations" is about Fuentes' fascination with Southern girls. "The Boy Who Could Fly" was originally six minutes long, but the intro was split off as a separate track, "Southern Constellations", because of its length. The music for "Besitos" showcases the band's Latin influence, and the lyrics describe Fuentes' relationship with a girl, from her point of view, who he "couldn't stop hurting over and over again".
Prior to the album's release, Fuentes said fans should "expect a lot of songs to sing along to" and that their live performances would be "super fun". Sergio Pereira of MusicReview described the album as experimental rock, but stressed that it was not "your stereotypical experimental record". An iTunes staff reviewer noted that it "blurs emo, prog rock, and post-hardcore" together, and Sebastian Berning of Powermetal noted the emo and post-hardcore sound also present on A Flair for the Dramatic in addition to many new stylistic influences. The majority of the songs featured on Selfish Machines were written by Fuentes, apart from: "The Boy Who Could Fly", "Disasterology" and "The Sky Under the Sea" that were co-written with ex- A Day to Remember guitarist Tom Denney and "Besitos" co-written with Dave Yaden. – Vic Fuentes, on the album's overall lyrical content, 2010
The theme of this album talks about these natural thoughts and feelings to want and take–the desire to be in love and the desperation for someone else to love you. Fuentes later said he was not going to be recording in Los Angeles again, as being so close to their hometown of San Diego provided "a lot of distractions that we didn't need".
#SELFISH MACHINES PIERCE THE VEIL FULL ALBUM UPDATE#
A studio update posted on February 19 noted eights days remained to record the vocals. By January 11, 2010, though vocals and keyboard tracks had yet to be recorded, all other components had been completed. During the recording sessions, Mike broke a microphone that was worth $6,000. The drums were recorded using three microphones on the kick drum, and four on the snare. It was revealed on December 27, 2009, that Mike Fuentes had recorded all the drum tracks in one day, at Ocean Studios in Burbank, California. Green was selected as the producer because, according to Fuentes, albums he had previously worked on "sounded amazing", and he was "a very down to earth and passionate person".
The album was recorded between December 2009 and January 2010 in Los Angeles with producer Mike Green, with a planned release later that year. However, none of the songs made it to the final cut. Like their previous record, A Flair for the Dramatic (2007), singer-songwriter Curtis Peoples joined Pierce the Veil to help write songs. Selfish Machines, and the band's next album Collide with the Sky (2012), was written in a cabin that belonged to Fearless Records' president Bob Becker. The band was writing and demoing new material at their home studio in November 2009. In April 2009, it was revealed that the band were in the process of writing for their next album. Fuentes also said in the interview that he was uncertain when the album would be released, but that it would be released by Equal Vision. In an interview with AbsolutePunk in early 2009, guitarist and vocalist Vic Fuentes revealed that Pierce the Veil's next album would be influenced by their fans.
The list included Pierce the Veil's second album, which was listed for release in the Autumn. In November 2008, Alternative Press posted a list detailing their most anticipated album releases for the following year.
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