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"We suck at repeating ourselves"
…I understand this in two ways.
One: as a conscious decision. They don't want to ride the same train over the years. If two or three consecutive albums sound similar, then I assume there were too many good ideas for one album. See SLWE and BTS for example. LLM and HMF maybe, too. Or this Gulvag trilogy. You wouldn't want to throw away great stuff just because you did somewhat similar last year. Also didn't they say once they usually pan out the next 2 or 3 years?
Two: Spontaneity. Band meets, jams, throws ideas around, has a certain sense for asthetics and – despite exceptional musicianship – limitations due to musical persona. Meaning, you might play all kinds of stuff but it's always YOU playing YOUR way according to YOUR taste. Of course styles and riffs of days and songs long gone pop up again. It's natural.
MP don't stagnate, nor is their journey a straight line never looking back. It's a wild ride all over the place, looping, catapulting, with the occasional backflips. So there's no will to repeat, but also no stubborn determination to never ever do the same thing again. Hey let's do an acoustic number again, an epic, a jazzy thing, a rocker. Let's get in guests we've worked with before. It's the psychoverse, living and breathing. What happens, happens. So yes, I see Bent's point.
2 years ago supernaut wrote:
Quote:Ship Of Fools!!! Jesus! What a ride! The scope, the musicality, the boldness… well that may be nothing new in the Motorpsychoverse but they still top it after all those years???oh you poor little fool. but you didn't know better back then.
Nice one.
As of not touring until late 2021, I wonder how much of The All is One we'd actually get to hear. They'll have two more albums written by then.
Let’s not forget: as a lyricist Bent isn’t the 25ish carefree boysclub blissard rocker anymore, but a grown man and father caring about reality. And what a reality we have nowadays. Instead of providing post adolescent escapism he speaks his mind. He’s getting to the point, putting the fingers in the wounds. Poetic artistry takes a step back and I for one welcome that, especially because I don’t see any cringeworthy lyrics at all. Yes calling pigs out for short term profit interest isn’t most original, but that’s exactly the point. It’s a sad bland fact commented on dryly. Jaz Coleman style. It’s not about looking good lyrically, but about making a stand. And content over form.
yes, I got a LZ vibe especially during Like Chrome. Made me think that LZ might have sounded somewhat like that in the early 80s if they had carried on. Less mid 70s, more of a next step after In Through The Outdoor. Still rockin but with a bit of a handbrake on. In a good, "musically matured" way. Which isn't me downplaying LZ, far from it. Me huge fan. But their focus shifted on their last album towards understatement (especially Page) by freeing themselves from rock for rock's sake and paying attention to concise songs and new soundscapes (well the story also goes that Page had other things to deal with and Jones bought himself a new state-of-the-art synthesizer). And Like Chrome does just that.
Like Ratmaus I also heard the same traces of Triggerman and Ratcatcher. Btw I heard Ocean House Studios has imported water, so…
Yes a big shout out to Tomas is due. He drives and carries that NOX suite wonderfully. For me he's already not the new drummer anymore. He is the drummer in Motorpsycho.
I didn't expect them to come back to those TDDU vibes and styles anytime soon, but that's what they did. Also quite some Folk Flest in there, too. Especially the first CATS.
Hmmmmm they never stroke me as more as an indie guitar rock band. A fine one, but…. I would prefer Dirty Sound Magnet in this genre
What I like especially about Ouroboros is how it's all intricate and mad and complex but the most impact comes from the most simple guitar hook starting at 3:50. Not because it's simple, but because it's back to simple after all the freaking out. It wouldn't have this impact without the previous freaky stuff resolving itself into it, and it wouldn't have it if the song would start right there like that. This is so supercleverly tastily done.
The short lick from 2:31 to 2:37, well… it's a big stretch but it's quite Young Gods-ey. They often throw in something very similar in many songs as a sample. Can it be that MP know and like Switzerland's best band? 8O But it's also a lick styling that's been used many many times and the Young Gods are no strangers to using classic hooks and riffs by deep knowledge of music history… So it might just have come to both from the same pool.
yay spotify! give the band 0.0001 cent!
yes 8O
this late in the song (or the album) I'm probably too out to notice. but now I checked right in with a mouseclick and behold! there it is!
@johnny
haha, yes! probably due to the orginally intended spring release.
I didn't want to make a big myyysteryyy riddle out of it, just thought the album will drop much later in the month so I didn't want to give away some things for those who don't want to know anything.
I would be one of those.
There's only a handful of their albums that got me completely immediately: Demon Box (because a) first time I've ever really heard them – except for one song on a Hüsker Dü tribute album – and b) I was stoned af that time), Blissard, Trust Us, BH/BC, LLM and TDDU. Funnily enough my dearest one, Timothy's Monster, took its sweet time for me. But that's probably because I expected something Demon Box-ish and because it's so sprawled out. But The Wheel did it right away. That bass… My poor roommates…
For this one: NOX just blew me away right away. I must have been laughing madly during the last 5 minutes. It just didn't stop, still maintaining or even top an overwhelming energy to the finish line.
The "proper" songs, I like them all, but I do think they need time. There's accessibilty but also a certain oddness happening at the same time, which make them a bit more difficult to see through, maybe? Neither captivating catchy on the spot nor weird or impressive monstertracks. I think they feed on subtlety and repeated listening.
"The Dowser" is kinda funny. After all the madness we not only get a quiet ditty to come back to senses, it also relies on a "my first guitar lesson ever" strumming pattern. But sure and soon enough the odd harmonic arrangement kicks in, too. Come to think of it, "The Light Fantastic" would have fit well here. This one I also find to be both poppy and odd in way quite like "The Magpie" and "Like Chrome". I already love that last one, though.
Out of this trilogy, I think eventually I'm going to love this one the most.
@Punj & Rune
I think it's a bit "there" in NOX but I'm not sure.
