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  • in reply to: New Motorpsycho Album 16.06.23 #41344
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      Thanks, Vegard! :mp:

      in reply to: New Motorpsycho Album 16.06.23 #41342
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        ^^^ Haha, that photo! Is nobody going to mention the obvious inspiration for that one? Sorry, I’m not able to post it from my phone.

        in reply to: Motorpsycho Tribute Series #40801
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          I’d forgotten about this by now. Still no news?

          in reply to: Phanerothyme re-issue #40789
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            It’s still Kim’s artwork, they just seem to have switched things around. Wouldn’t be the first time.

            in reply to: Motorpsycho Tribute Series #39474
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              Finally! :MPD: While we’re waiting, anyone up for wild guesses about who the surprise artist might be?

              in reply to: s'Numbness – German quote in the beginning #39610
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                Reeeally OT, but as for the German connection: Snah's mom’s birthplace is apparently in today’s Czech Republic, even though she is indeed German. This little oddity briefly mentions her family fleeing from Sudetenland to Germany when she was a child – some time after WW2, I guess.

                in reply to: Frode Sander Øien / Snah new album #39585
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                  Great stuff!

                  in reply to: Motorpsycho Tribute Series #39463
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                    Four more songs up on Bandcamp.

                    in reply to: Interview #39577
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                      Come to think of it, I’m quite sure the label in question was Sweet Nothing – just to finish that detour.

                      in reply to: Interview #39575
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                        Hmm, all of this reminds me that this was quite a troublesome release. Barracuda was supposed to be released on Man’s Ruin, which also meant Frank Kozik would have designed the cover, but the band backed off after someone (possibly Kozik himself) leaked the mini album (with a slightly different collection of songs) online. Also, there was talk at the time about a British label (the name escapes me) putting out Vanishing Point on a 7”, which sadly never happened.

                        in reply to: Interview #39574
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                          Probably the latter, then. Here’s the story, I remember a lot of us being bummed out by the final result, having already seen the «original» Barracuda cover (which wasn’t so original after all, haha).

                          in reply to: Interview #39572
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                            Yup, it was the mirror image of this, with the tribal on the license plate.

                            Edit: No idea about the rest, though, or if it was supposed to be a gatefold cover to begin with.

                            in reply to: Interview #39570
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                              That one is imho not so much ugly as it’s just plain wrong and looks more like a Turbonegro boxset.

                              in reply to: Interview #39562
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                                @Aki: I can’t speak for the band, but … well, I might appreciate the «still life» tradition taken into a modern expression, in this case with the hard flash photography aesthetics that was trending a few years ago. Still, I personally find this one butt ugly, and even if Kim put a lot of effort into it, I can easily imagine the band seeing the front cover and going «ok, so this is how much you care?». Or «A moldy apple and some random vegetables on the floor in ugly lighting, that’s a good representation of these songs to you, Kim?». If so, I wouldn’t blame them.

                                in reply to: Interview #39558
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                                  The way I read it, Still Life With Eggplant was the ‘insulting’ one (I totally get that, tbh), and although Kim did more covers after that one, it was no longer with carte blanche. My interpretation, I could be wrong..

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