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Love it!
Have only been listening up to Balthazaar, saving the rest.Saving Neotzar.
But now Three Frightened Monkeys ( the least memorable track according to Musikknyheter!!!Whaaaat!?!)-really digging it! Wanna dance and scream!:)ITromsø review Here
Norwegian – 4/6
ITromsø:
“Her kan «Balthazaar», «Three Frightened Monkeys» og «Netzar (The Second Coming)» nevnes som de soleklart største høydepunktene på albumet, hvor sistnevnte byr på over 20 minutter med ko-ko-prog i sin mest insisterende form, mer i retning av bandets nyere utgivelser, spesifikt den såkalte «Gullvåg»-trilogien.”
Ko-ko prog i sin mest insisterende form:) Love it!
Some thoughts after completely binging this record all day (and I will be binging it forever). And yes, grading music is so stupid, but also so much fun. Fans are nerds, bands are nerds, so why not.
So my five cents:
SOOO many GOOD tracks, so much genuine MP DNA, you hear echoes of their whole catalogue all through the record. I have said this for 30+ years: Quite amazing for a band to be this distinct, while their palette is so all over the place. And it still holds true. Cliches, and true for many bands (well, a small few), but all the same true.
In my ears we have two (or six!) COMPLETE classics here, “Bed of Roses” and “Dead of Winter” soooo gooooood! Omg. Earworms. Everything I love about MP. The strangeness and groove of BOR and the melody and beauty of DOW. Can’t WAIT to hear these live. And, what the hell “Lucifer, Bringer of Light” might also be up there, in the uppermost echelon of this huge massive mountain of MP masterpieces. How lucky we are.
I also really love “Laird of Heimly”, just so fucking good. What the hell, I’ll also put this on the MP Rushmore. Getting crowded up there!
And yes, hearing the singles in their context makes me appreciate them more. “Stanley” is really nice (tho not really up to the 90s hits, but still, a great pop rock banger, love the video), and the transition from LOH, sweet. They know their sequencing.
Guess I’m not a super fan of rockers like “The Comeback” tho I never was, way back when this trend started w Barracuda. But this is part of the deal w MP, some hit me, some don’t.
Always a sucker for in interludes like “Kip Sadie”. Not a key track, but great all the same. As a “Begynnelser” aficionado this is great stuff, and a solid MP thread going back to way when. EPs and side projects. 100% solid stuff.
“Balthazaar” is ALSO great. What the hell. Great playing, great groove, love the vocals. The organs (?) or synths are so well painted in the overall picture, this is something I can not picture them having done … 20 years ago. Rushmore candidate. A+
“Neotzar” might be one of the best songs of the latter day MP, where I feel it’s all coming together more succinctly than before. Insane playing. I should do more drugs.
“Three Frightened Monkeys” doesn’t catch me at the moment, but who knows. Skip for now.
In total, for me this might become the most played MP album since LLM, or Phanorthyme. I feel like there’s been a ton of MP masterpieces written in the last 20 years, but I’ve lacked a cohesion in the albums; some mystic spirit, some pop-spirit, there’s no shame popping, wtf, MP were masters and monsters in the pop banger noise emo game for their first 15 years, world class. Then they ventured a bit too far and gung ho into prog for my taste, but this record really ties it all neatly together. Thanks guys. Perfect record, perfect title, and album art.
The Sun and the Moon and everything in between.
“Visions” magazine (German) published an album review. It’s behind a paywall and tools like byebyepaywall won’t do. So, might anyone be able to paste the text here? Would be appreciated.
visions_de_review/motorpsycho-motorpsycho/
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Crunch wrote:
“I wasn’t sold on the singles but they make much sense when the album is played in full.
Not sure how the reviewers can slam a 6/10 on such dense, lenghty and complex piece of music in such a short time. After listening to MP for almost 30 years, it will take me at least two weeks to fully wrap my head around this properly and consider ranking it in the MP catalogue. I remember hating Phanerothyme with passion when it came out, and it’s one of their albums I go back to the most.Let’s all rejoice a new album is out, and a tour is coming soon. It’s a great day and a great year to be a Motorpsycho fan.”
With so many tracks on the album I would like to hear live – adding to the already massive MP canon – it gets more and more imperative to visit several MP concerts in a row. The other solution – 4 hr plus concerts – doesn’t seem practicable for band or audience either. I guess they’re only recording so many good tracks each year to make multiple concert attendance unavoidable…
Wow, the new album is seriously great. I’m not a fan of the “best since…” trope, but I can’t remember being so excited with new MP offerings in a while, maybe a decade or so. (Which is of course not to say recent albums have been bad, but this really seems something else)
@johnny_heartfield That’s why I sold my ticket to the Pixies today. They are playing in Groningen the same day as Motorpsycho are playing in Vera so now I am going to see MP in Groningen and Amsterdam.
So far, so good. I’ve only listened to the first disc (the first seven tracks) so far, but I have given it about four “spins” and I love it. Not a duff song on it – though I find The Comeback doesn’t do it for me quite like the rest of these first seven songs. Balthazaar is easily my standout favourite – strewn with Snah’s typically wonky mannerisms, especially the keys, but fantastically kept in the addictive groove by Bent and Ingvald. Can’t wait to hear this live. Bed of Roses, which I love, really reminds me of someone (esp. the vocals), but I just can’t put my finger on it. Anyone else? Like others who have commented above, Stanley has grown on me massively in the context of the album. And although I keep waiting for Snah to explode on Lucifer, the restrained guitar lead does help keep that track on course (not that veering off course isn’t welcome, or beyond this band). I wonder if this lead was Bent – it doesn’t really sound like Snah’s style of playing to me.
I have a feeling it’ll be a couple of days yet before I venture onto disc 2 – I’m just so entranced by disc 1!
This album is really great. I have friends who became fans of the album. I can’t wait to see how the songs will be arranged on the tour.
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