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@suntripper – the news (via an interview in Italy) is that they’ll be heading into the studio in November with Olaf and January with Ingvald. Add to that another trip to India in January, and I think it’s fair to say they’re not slowing down at all! Apparently, the drummer situation, as I understand it based on what Bent said in the interview, is that there is no permanent drummer – only hired guns. Sadly, I can’t find the interview now. Maybe someone else can post it.
@ bernie. As always, many many thanks for your hard work and dedication to recording, collecting, preparing and publishing these videos – yours and others.
Hi folks,
I still have a ticket for Tilburg and one for Utrecht that I can’t use. Anybody want one or both? I’ve just listed them on Ticketswap, but if anyone here wants one, let me know and I’ll email it.Hi all. Sadly I’m not going to be able to make the tour this time around. I had tickets for all three NL dates (Tilburg, Utrecht, Zwolle), as well as Eurostar and rooms booked. But we’re moving home and I can no longer make it. Thankfully, I’ve been able to postpone my train ticket at no cost and cancel the rooms, also at no cost. This leaves me with tickets. I’ve already passed on the Zwolle ticket, which leaves me with one for Utrecht and one for Tilburg.
So … anybody interested in a ticket for Utrecht and/or Tilburg? If so, DM me at jyotipunj at hotmail dot com. Pay what you can, or pay it forwards.
Fantastic new album from British band The Fierce and the Dead. Having formerly only released intrumental albums (angular, King Crimson-ish, tricksy, layered), the band take a left turn and release a bunch of songs with vocals! And what vocals! Goodness knows where Kevin Feazey has been hiding his voice all these years, but this new sound is a triumph. Plus, TFATD are great bunch of blokes!
My last notification from the shipping company was that the package had left the Netherlands on Tuesday morning. Nothing since then (I guess it takes a while to cross to the UK these days). So streaming will have to do for now! Here goes …
Bummer! Both my UK shows postponed. I hope everything is OK with the band.
From Motorpsycho’s Facebook page:
‘So sorry about this. A real bummer.
“Shows postponed due to unforeseen circumstances; new dates will be announced soon. Tickets remain valid or refunds at points of purchase.” 😢😥
Too many factors conspired to make this tour impossible to do right now, but we are trying our best to rescedule and will announce developments ASAP!’@airguitarhero – it’s great to hear another UK Motorpsycho fan has joined the group! I still remember my first Motorpsycho show in London in 2017. I quickly followed it up with a trip to see them in Cologne a couple of weeks later, and I haven’t looked back since. I’ve managed about a dozen shows by now and have five more lined up for this year, including two of the UK shows (Southampton and London) and the three shows in the Netherlands in October.
I’m sure you’re going to have an incredible time in Leeds – I have a feeling these are going to be pretty intimate and unusual shows. Sail on!
8/10 from Artrock.se
I’m not going to say that Norwegian Motorpsycho started to get downright annoying. But on the records that followed the masterpiece “The death-defying unicorn” – released in 2012 together with experimental compatriot Ståle Storløkken and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra – the listener has increasingly been able to sit back in the certainty that you know what you’re getting. That is, heavy, swinging melodic, controlled flume with at least one trip around the world per album. It’s generally been very good, too, but this is still a band that, over its thirty-plus years, has had variation as a code of honor. Country? Certainly! Indie pop? Absolutely.
That’s why it’s great that we’re now treated to a basically acoustic album from the troika. The music is still sticky melodious and hallucinatory hypnotic. But the fact that you rest on a bed of clear-voiced, acoustic guitars creates new freshness. It’s 1960s rather than taken from the decade after. “Real again (Norway shrugs and stays at home)” sounds like it was taken from “The Who sell out” (1967) while “Loch meninglessness & the Mull of Dull” (exquisite titles!) echoes of Simon and Garfunkel, but with an Indian twist. And the ensemble can’t refrain from a relatively long drive: “Hotel Daedalus” is just over seven minutes of heavy-rocking Motorpsycho as we’ve come to know them; wonderfully pompously symphonic, but perhaps even more melodious than usual. The play in question will probably get a place of honor on my annual list at the end of 2023, while “Yay!” on the other hand, probably Motorpsycho’s strongest album since said “…Unicorn”.
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8 points from Saiten Kult
MOTORPSYCHO have neither reinvented themselves with their latest studio album, nor have they radically readjusted themselves by turning away from the tried and tested methods. The Norwegians have summarily got rid of the heaviness of epic and progressiveness for this one work. After all, the group has always been open to surprises.
The core trio around Bent Sæther, Hans Magnus Ryan and Tomas Järmyr, expanded to include Reine Fiske and Lars Fredrik Swahn, did not completely get rid of the expensive coal-fired power plant electricity with ‘Yay!’ and did not record a pure acoustic album, but rather one on acoustic instruments constructed work produced.
The ten new compositions of ‘Yay!’ do not explore the interactions of loud and quiet, but seek their own middle ground. Songs like ‘Cold & Bored’ and ‘W.C.A.’ nestle straight into the pants with the usual Scandinavian warmth – complete with acoustic guitars, harmonic vocals and congas for the rhythm. Likewise, ‘Sentinels’ storms into the viewer’s soul with a zither in the background. ‘Patterns’ even packs the electric guitar and synthesizer gently on top of that, as well as ‘Hotel Daedalus’ the corresponding guitar solo and ‘The Rapture’, so to speak, the violins.
Whoever loves to look at the starry sky stark naked at night, be enchanted by acoustic guitars and dark Scandinavian mellotron sounds as well as heroic harmonies, will get the full pampering program from MOTORPSYCHO.
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