MOTORPSYCHO albums poll

Yeah When The World Sleeps. From the liner notes:

Of course, for fanatical motorpsychologists, it is nothing short of the holy grail we're now being granted access to--a complete, unreleased album from 1995. And don't be surprised to find it shockingly homogenic, to the point of being monolithic. More than anything, it points towards the present day Motorpsycho--conceptual, heavy as lead, and progressive in the literal sense of the word. Why on earth was this left behind? I dare speculate; it was possibly slightly ahead of its time even for its makers. In 1995...this one would seriously confuse the shit out of everybody, with an absolute nought of commercial potential. But here we are...What in the world happened here? Did they deliberately attempt to play very slow? Not that this one gets so far as Sunn O))) or the early outings of Sigur Ros--this is still comfortably within range--but there's not much upbeat tempo here, and where it appears it still seems connected to the rest.

A&D also has a 2+ hour live set, excellently recorded too. Given the very reasonable price of the set it's worth getting for that alone. The 30-minute opener with Deathprod (an ambient/noise piece called "Komet") is kind of a waste but the rest is excellent.

Not sure how I feel about the extra album on Blissard yet. Sometimes it sounds really great, but I can see why they didn't release it. Some of the tracks would appear on their EPs though (often massively reworked of course)

"a pacific sonata" at the roundabout on terrapin station

These guys have one of the most satisfying discographies to alternately zone out or rock out to on shuffle

...and yet The All Is One is a bit of a letdown for me, some of the wilder stretches excepted. I feel like they've hit a wall with this sound.

had a new song in my release radar on spotify, sounded okay but the lyrics...yeesh...hearing the phrase "fake news" in lyrics, i'm out

yeah that's the opener, and the lyrics are extremely cringe

their lyrics are usually pretty bad, its often best just not to pay attention to them at all

btw I am listening to Death Defying Unicorn tonight and kinda thinkin it might be one of the best prog albums ever made

it's good as hell, despite sounding completely awful in theory

didactic lyrics can come across a little too neal morse, sure, but \m/ "night of pan" \m/ is "awaken"-level

yeah I mean I don't generally come to prog for great lyrics but that just stuck out so bad

bring it

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I have finally listened to these guys; up this this point the only thing i knew about them was that my friend Andy who lives in the UK was a giant fan, and given his general tastes I assumed they were rather more Monster Magnet than they are. I'm pretty excited to spend time with these albums, I love a catalog where any record might sound completely different from another one. So far love Demon Box, Timothy's Monster, and the Tower.

I was pretty sure Motorpsycho was a band a bunch of you made up as a prank on me, but then I saw their listing on Discogs.

Now I know you've got a mole at Discogs helping out with the prank.

new one's out. sounds like motorpsycho.

I do like them a lot but idk how often they need to release this album lol

I've only heard parts - waiting for my copy to arrive like a good psychonaut - but yeah the consensus seems to be "I'm still trying to get the last one", almost Autechre-esque from these guys at this point.

prog unplugged YAY! is as nice a comedown as post-metal opeth damnation