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Just had a new gem from Stickman in the mail:
Delving – Hirschbrunnen
ELDER Frontman Nick di Salvo's solo project….highly recommended! a really craftfully composed instrumental psych/rock/howeveryounameit-album. Certainly some traces of Motorpsycho and Jaga Jazzist (minus the horns). Also, really nice artwork!
Not yet worthy enough of a new thread regarding a potential KoO-Follow Up, but apparently today marks the last day of recording in Oslo. Might be MP, might be another band Tomas is involved in.
https://www.instagram.com/stories/tomasjarmyr/2571837640192332306/?hl=de
So, after a while I need to change my verdict on the album quite a bit – and for the better!! I did'nt really listen to it too often, but when i did i really enjoyed it as a whole. I would even regard it as a successful fan-pleaser as you can find traces from pretty much all the different stages of the band. I was underwhelmed by the sabbathy riffs and the folk songs, but it all falls nicely into place.
One thought on Snah's solos: I think the reason why they appear a bit generic recently is that the solos lie on top of mostly pentatonic or one-chord riffs…so, there isn't much to venture out from. God needs some harmonics and chord progressions to play with and lift off from :STG:
One question: Does anybody know why there is absolutely no activity on the motorpsycho.no-site?
Cheers
@Tomcat: Great, I like people offering solid solutions to difficult situations
:STG: :MPD:I second the comments about the guitar solos. Snah is one of the very few guitarists who manages to really tell stories with his soloing – uplifting, creating friction with the harmonies and just making it an additional voice. Reading comparisons to bands like DT, who treat music like a competition of skills, is pretty much the most horrible thought i can think of :lol: It also makes the lurker's final part rather difficult for me – live of course it might work as the ultimate madness crescendo.
I'll sit this one out. Great artwork, but now that i listened to it, i really don't see myself ever pulling it out of the shelf again. It certainly is well-crafted music, but it doesn't do anything for me emotionally. Except maybe for the title track (Snah can't do no wrong!) and "At Empire's end", which would have been a great B-Side on one of the 10inch EPs. The rest feels more like a rather random sequence of riffs and sketches, instead of real songs. Odd meters, layers of sound, twists and turns…but what for? What is the core of the idea?
What always made MP special for me, was the urgency of the songs. The feeling that it is absolutely impossible that there ever was a world without their songs in it. How did mankind ever exist without "Un chien", "S.T.G.", "Vortex Surfer"?(add any song you like to the list). By now, i barely see that anymore.
Still, i am sincerely happy for everyone drawing joy from it.
Sail on!
Yeah, sometimes a bad review is even more fun to read… If intelligently written. Nothing to be butthurt about.
But if it's uninspired then it is just poor craft, hence the author should be pro enough to hand the album to someone else
Thanks! I also have given up resistance on that matter a long time ago :lol:
So far, great teaser. It's funny how some of the snippets don't make much sense, without knowing about the harmonic build-up/reference that leads to the 30 seconds.
Not a complete turn away from the recent output, but i sense it is more noise/emotion/belly and less cleverness (in a good way)…which i hoped for!
BTW Great to hear the return of (…)!!!! :wink:
@naur Thanks for the find! And it's their record of the week btw.
Sorry for my grumpy words a couple of days ago. I have to admit that it's a solid rocker which occasionally comes to my mind. Still, i find it a bit underdeveloped regarding the structure and the fade-out. I just had to utter my disappointment that they didn't take the chance to start a profoundly new chapter. Still, good, well-crafted song and hoping for some magic to happen on the album.
I have to say that to me it is quite a let down. Listened to it twice from start to finish and didn't make it through ever since. The song just feels incredibly formulaic and generic. The sticking to a certain aesthetic on the last releases was somehow justified by the context of the trilogy, but i can't hear any trace of a new direction or fresh idea. Being the sonic scientists they are, i can hardly imagine the band being in the studio going " Wow, this is it!". I'll give the album a spin for sure, but my expectations went down wuite a bit. Anyway, sail on guys!
the only tiny newish bit of info i could find in the meantime: the running time appears to be 70 minutes & 11 seconds
hey, it's better than nothing….waiting for some tease to drop soon
Anyway, 12 tracks sounds like a rather versatile ride to me.