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
They're reissuing their Roadwork series of live albums on vinyl (with CDs in the packaging), and adding a new set. Here's the rundown:
Roadwork Vol. 1 (1999) 2LP/1CDThe Other FoolA K9 SuiteFeelSuper/WheelYou LiedBlack to CommWords of WisdomVortex Surfer
Roadwork Vol. 2 (2000) 2LP/1CDOlemanns KornettGrindstoneThe WheelFinske SkogerDreamsThe Golden CoreLimboNå
Roadwork Vol. 3 (2002) 2LP/1CD *originally released as part of the Haircuts DVD*Stained GlassCuster's Last Stand (One More Daemon)Starmelt/Lovelight577Little Ricky MassenburgHogwashSTGNeverland
Roadwork Vol. 5 (2018) 3LP/2CDShip of FoolsSleepwalkingLacuna/SunriseManmowerKölnUn Chien d'EspaceTaifun
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
Listened to Roadwork Vol. 5 this morning while doing laundry. It's really nice. Other than a little two-minute interlude, the shortest song is 11 minutes, and the longest is over 30.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
oh nice, can't wait to get my hands on it. I only have 1 & 2. 1 is a classic, of course. I kinda love 2 as well though I guess the premise of "three different bands meet each other (presumably) for the first time" may be sort of a turn off. it's pretty wild though.
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
okay, I've got Vol 3 now and it's great. the "four Norsemen" are presumably the trio + a keyboard player, which does give them the dimension to play something like "Stained Glass", but otherwise they kinda stay away from the folky/rootsy stuff, instead kicking out the jams as they always do. I mean, holy shit, that 20-minute "Hogwash" is something else. And followed up by "STG" ? Wow. Its kinda cool in that there is so much jamming and improvising that a lot of times you forget what song you're listening to. Which is the way I wish more live albums were. Great stuff.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
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