For the first part of a conceptual double EP, the San Francisco trio The M Machine looked toward Austrian-American film director/producer Fritz Lang for inspiration. Obsessed with Lang’s German Expressionist science fiction film Metropolis, members of The M Machine took it upon themselves to write a mythology for the groundbreaking 1927 silent movie. The opening song here, “Immigrants,” booms and blasts out of a wide-angled low end that sounds tailor-made for the outdoor arena. But at just less than five minutes long, it bobs and hooks with the grappling barbs of a radio-friendly chart-topper. Though the song never goes full dubstep, some pitted deep-bass textures and crisp production (along with contagiously catchy melodies) make for a recording that sounds right at home on Skrillex’s OWSLA label. The following “Deep Search” is noticeably rooted in the band’s electronic Francophile leanings, with hints of effervescent French house elements that fizz into Parisian-accented trance styles toward the song’s end. The group combines these cosmopolitan flourishes with Postal Service–style pop sophistication in the standout cut “A King Alone.”