I guess that's re: the best of linked to above.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
xpp, yeah I guess it is a Spirit cover. I never heard the original until now
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Friday, 31 December 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone heard the new one?
http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/motorpsycho/rcd-2124-motorpsycho-and-stale-storlokken-the-death-defying-/
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 20 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
I like it - it's a big, pleasant mess, where you can easily detached the usual influences (Black Sabbath, King Crimson, Van Der Graaf, Sun Ra) but there are enough twists and turns to keep you satisfied. There's some filler too, but tracks like Through The Veil or La Lethe are quite good.
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
Very proggy, very jazzy. A massive listening experience. But it won't become my favorite MP-album, I'm more in favor of shorter songs.
Nevertheless, they deliver every single time.
― Marty Innerlogic, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
they sure do. this is incredible. "into the mystic" is massivehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atV4fQ4Z68kunfortunate title and all
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Check the album, like Marty wrote is massive and all over the place but it is rewarding (and even the failures are somehow glorious).
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BAL-pNu9I
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
we got any fans here? been hearing some tracks here & there and I'm really digging them, though normally this kind of thing isn't really up my alley.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 14 August 2014 12:46 (nine years ago) link
Oh definitely fans around here. Their latest album Behind The Sun is a step up to the previous one Still Life With Eggplant which didn't grab me like their older albums. Still not a big fan of The Death Defying Unicorn since I like my Motorpsycho playing shorter, more rocking songs, but if you dig proggy orchestral experimental stuff you should try that one.
Their run from 1995 - 1999 is still unsurpassable, with the albums Timothy's Monster, Blissard, Angels And Daemons At Play and their masterpiece Trust Us.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Thursday, 14 August 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
if you dig proggy orchestral experimental stuff you should try that one.
sold
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 14 August 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Let_Them_Eat_Cake_%28albumcover%29.jpg
i'm an atypical fan and always stanning for Let Them Eat Cake (which is from their psychedelic pop phase). so there.
but thus bump will inspire me to re-listen to the run Marty mentioned.
― Ludo, Thursday, 14 August 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Listening to Trust Us right now! So damn good. loving Vortex Surfer, got a massive codawww.youtube.com/watch?v=uW6aF7ZdMhE
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Friday, 15 August 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Is it just me or is the mix on Timothy's Monster all wrong? Not that it sounds bad, but there's something weird about it, on these sorts of 'normal' melodic rock songs the drums sort of sit in the front while the vocals lay in the background, it's weird and kind of cool, especially when new instruments come in and just take over the whole mix. Outside of maybe The Fall with Mark E. at the mixing desk I can't think of anything else produced quite this way.
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
First exposure to them was Liitle Lucid. Great. Thinking I should take a chronological approach to the albums
― calstars, Friday, 25 March 2016 02:28 (eight years ago) link
For those with less time and patience to make it through their 18+ album discography, they released a concise two disc collection last year, Supersonic Scientists - A Young Person´s Guide To Motorpsycho that's a nice intro.
Since you like LLM, I'd recommend checking out Heavy Metal Fruit (2010) next, before going back to the beginning. Demon Box (1993) and Timothy's Monster (1994) are quite different.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
Word, thanks
― calstars, Friday, 25 March 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
I think I really love this band
― frogbs, Friday, 8 April 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
"Evernine" from Trust Us is the only song I wanna hear today, over and over again
― frogbs, Friday, 30 December 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
http://motorpsycho.no/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/the_tower_motorpsycho-1024x1024.jpg
Friends!
On September 8 2017 we release our new album ‘The Tower’ on Rune Grammofon / Stickman Records. It is a double LP, a double CD, and will also be available digitally.
This is how we got here:
http://motorpsycho.no/2017/07/the-tower/
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 28 July 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
change of drummer and producer hopefully will do them some good, their description got me hyped for this
― Spottie, Friday, 28 July 2017 08:14 (six years ago) link
was playing some MP when my Dad was around, I think "Whip That Ghost" was on and he said "this is really great, you have good taste" then "Psychonaut" came on and he was like "what the hell is this? put that other band on"
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
haha
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
I've had similar experiences with Ween too
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
yeh ween is even more varied
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
give dad Phanerothyme for his birthday, that's their ultimate dadrock album I reckon!
new album cover looking promising. Double album.. not so sure.
― Ludo, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
both of them did made surprisingly great country records too. I think that's what links them together, in my mind
kinda glad this one's a double since so many of their great 90's ones were. probably means there will be a few throwaway bits but that's the psychos for ya
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
the fairly recent Black Hole/Blank canvas was pretty meh though... (not be a bummer to the party).
and almost all MP records have at least 1 or 2 great tracks, so.. this one should have 4
― Ludo, Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
stoked. other double albums (death-defying unicorn oh yeah) have been dope
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
could I get a few POX's? I keep wanting to get into these guys but their catalog is so damn daunting
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
Generally think the four record run of Demon Box-Timothy's Monster-Blissard-Angels and Daemons at Play is unfuckwithable. Tough to single out songs from those albums though, as they are such a part of the album their on.
Would have to think long and hard about a POX.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 10 August 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
^dead on. Been listening to those albums nonstop lately.
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 11 August 2017 02:54 (six years ago) link
Sometimes when bands have an overwhelmingly huge catalog I start with a mix based on the songs they play live the most:
https://www.setlist.fm/stats/motorpsycho-63d62abb.html
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 11 August 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
I would add Trust Us to the run Le Bateau Ivre just described, such a massive experience. Also, Black Hole/Blank Canvas is great, one of their most underrated albums. Curious about the new one, a friend of mine saw them live just last week at the Krach Am Bach festival and he said the new songs he heard were great, a lot heavier than the previous few albums.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Friday, 11 August 2017 10:35 (six years ago) link
And just for fun, my Motorpsycho POX:
WatersoundPills powders and passion playsHey JaneStarmelt/LovelightThe golden coreThe other foolSonic teenage GuinevereUberwagner (or a billion bubbles in mind)TriggermanThe ocean in her eyes
...this feels way too short, I could easily add another ten.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Friday, 11 August 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
I just heard "Starmelt/Lovelight" for the first time on the Supersonic Scientists comp last year. I guess that was on the Lovelight EP -- amazing that with all those albums people can single out a cut from an EP!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 11 August 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
It's also on Angels And Daemons At Play. If I were to single out an EP track it would be Mad Sun. Unbelievable that they didn't put that one on a regular album.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Friday, 11 August 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
"Step Inside" from the 8 Soothing Songs for Rut EP is great, I wish they'd included that on Demon Box instead of the muffled and brooding version we got
amazing how these dudes were able to whip so many pitch-perfect pop songs out of their asses, unusual for such a jam-heavy band. Angels and Daemons has 3 - "Walking on the Water", "Starmelt/Lovelight", and "Like Always".
can't even begin a POX right now but "Sinful, Wind-Borne" and "Evernine" would definitely be on it
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
I'd definitely add Trust Us to the classic run of albums.Speaking of pop songs, it has their very best, 'Hey Jane'.
I kinda lost track of them after 'Let Them Eat Cake', but I'll check out at least BHBC based on the recommendations above.
And FnB, I had never thought of the setlist trick - that is one to remember!
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 12 August 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard BHBC in years, but I don't remember it as among their best. But you should check out Little Lucid Moments, Heavy Metal Fruit and last years Here Be Monsters (And the 12 inch with the title track).
― satans favourite son, Saturday, 12 August 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
Makes me very happy this thread does
― calstars, Sunday, 13 August 2017 01:56 (six years ago) link
xp - Will do!
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 13 August 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link
Glad to see MP get some appreciation here! I've been a fan since seeing them play for 30 people in a dingy punk rock shoebox on the Demon Box tour. The post-BHBC work never really resonated with me, but this new one sounds interesting, change of drummer might just be the thing they needed.
Anyways here's my quick & dirty POX in no particular order:
Walking on the WaterPsychonautRadiance Freq.Un Chien d'EspaceS'NumbnessOzoneSerpentineThe Slow PhaseoutSinful, wind-borneStarmelt/Lovelight
― sonderpop, Monday, 14 August 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
You can listen to a new song here: http://www.visions.de/news/27250/Motorpsycho-streamen-neuen-Song-A-S-F-E
― satans favourite son, Saturday, 26 August 2017 06:24 (six years ago) link
Rune Grammofon wouldn't give me a promo because it was not officially released yet in North America, hence the pricey $31+ import price on Amazon. I ordered from Stickman which was better, about $23 USD. I won't get the CDs for at least a week but it's just started floating in the c-ether and is on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/0BqXam3ZWK3d4h8SIHmxMI
Enjoy!
Reviews:http://teamrock.com/review/2017-09-06/motorpsycho-the-tower-album-reviewhttp://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2017/08/28/motorpsycho-the-tower-review-premiere/
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 8 September 2017 04:10 (six years ago) link
http://fastnbulbous.com/motorpsycho-the-tower/
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 8 September 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
Reprtedly their only 2017 UK show (London in October) was pretty sparsely attended. A bit surprising to me and I might have made more of an effort to go if I'd had an inkling it wouldn't be guaranteed busy.
Seems their European popularity doesn't extend across the Channel.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 14 December 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
That seems about right. I read a lot about how important they are to the Norwegian scene and how their stuff often ranks amongst Norway's best music, which gives me the impression that they aren't very popular anywhere else. Kind of funny to see discussion threads which are half "just discovered these guys and they're amazing, why aren't they more popular?" and half "what are you talking about, we've loved them for years!"
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
On the Tower, “In Every Dream” is very good. I couldn’t really get with the slower acoustic stuff on the album. At times the singer just sounds kind of cheesy.
― calstars, Sunday, 17 December 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
Apparently there's something that isn't working for them beyond Europe. The only lists this album made besides mine was #10 on Prog Magazine's, and The Needledrop's 15 Underrated episode.
http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-17/#albumshttp://teamrock.com/feature/2017-12-20/2017-the-prog-critics-choice
https://youtu.be/T0TP8Ts__sQ?t=10m26s
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 31 December 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link
^ Good times indeed.
Somehow I've only just seen that a new one was announced. Pre orders already shipping apparently.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Friday, 8 February 2019 12:06 (five years ago) link
These guys and Autechre putting the lie to the idea that Gen X are slackers.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Friday, 8 February 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
heres another one, I really like this side of the band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Q6ojc5Wa4
― frogbs, Friday, 8 February 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4cFV8z4Yxs
One of their best album openers imo.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 February 2019 08:20 (five years ago) link
I agree, though I think the album itself (It's a Love Cult) is one of their weaker efforts.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Monday, 11 February 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
I prefer it over Phanerothyme, but there are stronger ones, sure.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 February 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
one of their best album closers too, I really love this song. it's like some great Nazz outtake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQZCyxIwIYI
― frogbs, Monday, 11 February 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
another cool thing - "STG" (Sonic Teenage Guinnevere) uses the same tuning as "Guinnevere" by CSN. of course MP's version rocks a lot harder :)
anyone hear the new one yet?
― frogbs, Monday, 18 February 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
http://motorpsycho.no/2019/09/memo-from-bob/
We went back into Studio Black Box in France (where we did the Ole album in June) for a two week session without any defined idea or clear concept of what we wanted to achieve, and just recorded as many of the songs we have amassed over the last couple of years as possible. It turned out to be quite a lot of music, probably too much for even a double album, so we’ll have to think a bit about how to do this one. It is far too early for us to say anything sensible about it, so we’ll need the winter to sort things out and see what it actually is. Maybe it’s time for another triple LP? We’ll see – it ain’t done til it’s done!
hell yeah it's time
― frogbs, Friday, 27 September 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Newish documentary. Interesting interviews with the band intercut with fantastic recent live footage and a bit of history. Woah.
https://vimeo.com/376023605
And an oldish documentary from 2000 for Dutch TV.
https://youtu.be/8YyPsANBwdE
― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits), Friday, 29 November 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
One year ago (11/30/18) I saw these guys at Nasjonal Jazzscene in Oslo, as part of Rune Grammofon's two-night 20th anniversary show. The set list was mostly songs from The Tower, plus three older ones. It was loud as fuck and pretty glorious.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 29 November 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
The live stuff in the new film is recorded off the desk and sounds amazing. I know they've always improvised but Bent isn't kidding when he says they're playing a kind of jazz.
― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits), Saturday, 30 November 2019 07:40 (four years ago) link
I'm really quite knocked out by Little Lucid Moments. This is the one I'd have started with if I'd known. Still yet to connect in any big way with most of the pre-Kapstad era stuff (not via the medium of Youtube anyway); I can tell it's really vital but too straight 90s indie rock. I dunno.
I also got Still Life With Eggplant recently and while it's not as significant it works well as a mellow companion to LLM. Barleycorn and Afterglow are really nice.
Dare I say I feel I now have a pretty good handle on Motorpsycho 2008-present day.
― ceci n'est pas un ppe (Noel Emits), Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
"she left on the sun ship" is astonishing
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:09 (four years ago)
― Noel Emits, Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
LLM is great, all four tunes have one really amazing bit on it
I prefer Heavy Metal Fruit though, not huge on "Starhammer" but I love everything else
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 May 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
next MP album gonna have a 42 minute tune on it god damn
http://motorpsycho.no/2020/06/the-all-is-one/
Hi psychonauts!Summer is coming on strong and whatever bit of the world that still went to work ….will soon not.No rest for the wicked though, and both we, our team and our record company friends are busy preparing the next Motorpsycho album for release!This album is called The All Is One, and will be released on 2xLP, 2xCD as well as digitally through both Stickman Records and Rune Grammofon on August 28, 2020.The cover art is once again by Håkon Gullvåg, and this time around is art painted esp for us!It is a long album that features music from two sessions we did last year. The first session included our favourite Stockholmian Norwegian Reine Fiske, and took place in Black Box Studio in France in September. The second, featured two of our favourite Norwegian musicians, Ola Kvernberg and Lars Horntveth, and was a brief three day affair at Ocean Sound Studio on the Norwegian west coast in November.At the center of this album is a long 5 part piece featuring some of the most radical stuff we’ve done on record in a while, but if the prospect of a 42minute piece for ballet inspired by paintings, alchemy and the tarot seems too daunting, there is also a handful of losely related shorter songs to get into. For us this is obviously just different views and tangents of the one thing, but you will all make of it what you will, and hopefully it will all make some sort of sense to you however deep you choose to go.We guess the details – cover, song titles and whatnot – will be made public as summer moves along, so watch the various relevant spaces for relevant info and hang loose – it’ll be worth the wait, we promise!
Summer is coming on strong and whatever bit of the world that still went to work ….will soon not.No rest for the wicked though, and both we, our team and our record company friends are busy preparing the next Motorpsycho album for release!
This album is called The All Is One, and will be released on 2xLP, 2xCD as well as digitally through both Stickman Records and Rune Grammofon on August 28, 2020.The cover art is once again by Håkon Gullvåg, and this time around is art painted esp for us!
It is a long album that features music from two sessions we did last year. The first session included our favourite Stockholmian Norwegian Reine Fiske, and took place in Black Box Studio in France in September. The second, featured two of our favourite Norwegian musicians, Ola Kvernberg and Lars Horntveth, and was a brief three day affair at Ocean Sound Studio on the Norwegian west coast in November.
At the center of this album is a long 5 part piece featuring some of the most radical stuff we’ve done on record in a while, but if the prospect of a 42minute piece for ballet inspired by paintings, alchemy and the tarot seems too daunting, there is also a handful of losely related shorter songs to get into. For us this is obviously just different views and tangents of the one thing, but you will all make of it what you will, and hopefully it will all make some sort of sense to you however deep you choose to go.
We guess the details – cover, song titles and whatnot – will be made public as summer moves along, so watch the various relevant spaces for relevant info and hang loose – it’ll be worth the wait, we promise!
― frogbs, Friday, 19 June 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
They were framing this as potentially a 3xLP before so this has probably been pared down if anything
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 19 June 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
are they really doing another record? come on, enough already
http://motorpsycho.no/2021/02/kingdom-of-oblivion
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I mean, how dare they.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
pls no trenchant social commentary on the next one thanks
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
Sorry, Simon ;-)
The title cut, "Kingdom of Oblivion", is about the opiate epidemic.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 22 February 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link
Mercy and grace and Isaid our sad soft goodbyeshere in the fashion of delusion's reign
Humbug and hogwash both spreadlike some cancerous growththe discourse just felt insane
New borad description. Seriously though, who can deny the sentiment.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 22 February 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
these guys really threatening to be my new "don't have time to listen to anything else" sort of band, much like Autechre the last couple of years.
"Munity!" is currently my favorite MP track, the vocals are so damn good. also lol @ the Yes homage
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
really all of TDDU is astounding, I'm even starting to dig the slow bits on Side 3. absolutely one of those "they don't make 'em like this anymore" sort of albums.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link
There's the band's dedication to constantly producing new (epic) material, the fans' generosity in sharing good recordings, but more than that just the fact that concerts are happening at all somewhere in the world.
https://www.motorpsychodelicclips.com/node/329
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
I listened to Roadworks 4 a day after the Can Live in Stuttgart set and it occurred to me that these bands have kind of a similar approach to their shows
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
listening to BH/BC and LLM right back-to-back is like a masterclass in what you can do once you acquire a great drummer
― frogbs, Friday, 6 August 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
Funny thing is that bass player Bent played the drums on BH/BC, on that record Motorpsycho consisted of just Bent (vocals, bass, drums) and Snah (guitar, vocals). LLM was Kenneth Kapstadt's debut. Both are phenomenal records.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Friday, 6 August 2021 08:23 (two years ago) link
yea he does a fine job but the songs they wrote were much more straightforward and "on rails" whereas on LLM they could constantly shift tempo and time signature. they also play a lot faster in certain parts. I mean you're right they're both great, but that's MP for you, everything they do works
― frogbs, Friday, 6 August 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
The Crucible is such a great album. they've morphed into some amalgam of Wetton-era King Crimson and Pawn Hearts-era Van der Graaf Generator. their recent albums rule so much.
― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
wait is "the all is one" about how Motorpsycho is frustrated with The Discourse?
now i'm imagining "the plague of lighthouse keepers" but the lyrics are just jamie hood's "against discourse"
https://www.tsqnow.online/post/against-discourse-the-chaser-myth-the-un-making-of-a-modern-woman-by-jamie-hood
yes, everything i talk about _does_ somehow become trans shit within fifteen seconds
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 20 May 2022 04:08 (one year ago) link
Wasn't sure about more acoustic based Motorpsycho at this point, given how much I've loved their recent records, but Yay! is really good! Didn't realize until after I heard it that Reine Fiske produced it - which explains some Dungen vibes I got (esp on "Hotel Daedalus").
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 21:30 (eight months ago) link
I've had a hard time getting into this one for some reason. Fiske has been on most of the recent albums too i believe.
i have no idea what this means.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 22:30 (eight months ago) link
I think she's talking about the title track which I'll just say are perhaps not the best they've ever written
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:05 (eight months ago) link