Yeah, I wrote about the whole set at the end of July. I don't think I'm ever gonna dive all the way into their catalog, but there's a lot on these live records that I like a lot.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
holy shit this song is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pi5jvttuWY&list=PLqK4NODjKGfTqpfIqrDlb-x3o08_5Y3Bm&index=12
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
link is dead
― marcos smart (Spottie), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pi5jvttuWY
those "[Artist Name] - topic" accounts are strange
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
That is lush, thank you.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
nice
― marcos smart (Spottie), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 21:08 (five 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link