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I’ve read on several places now people calling LLM, COTF and HMF a trilogy. Do they officially form a trilogy, I mean more than being the first three featuring Kenneth and stuff like that? Is there an official announcment from the band regarding this, like a lyrical theme amongst the three or something? Just curious.
I’ve read the reviews about the trilogy thing to, but I don’t think there is any special connection between them, other than that Kenneth is playing the drums. I can’t remember to have read/heard that Bent or Snah has mentioned this in any way either. But I remember that they said something about Child Of The Future were more like an EP/anniversary thing for them. Which in a way “confirms” that this is not an album trilogy. I’ll guess it’s a journalist thing. Anyone else who have some input on this topic?
Well, thats interesting. I see alot of connections lyrically and thematically.
Consider Little Lucid Moments Suite, there’s a pervasive feeling of “we (humanity) are heading in the wrong direction, we need someone to get us back on track”, for instance. This is very similar to Gullible’s Travails, I get a very strong sense of Ryan thinking we (humanity) are lost in our society, ‘our momentum makes it hard to read the signs’, and even though we are aware of it ‘I pray for pardon’, being unable or unwilling to change. There’s a feeling of desperation and, to some degree, misanthropy.
Child of the Future (the song) is urging our kids, the next generation, to take the reins and not put up with all the shit we have done and are still doing (environmentally, economically, third world?). Very much in tune with what LLM Suite and GT are saying.
Also, of course, the album covers are similar in both the use of colours and the technique applied by Kim. But this also applies to earlier work, LTEC/Phanerothyme/IALC for instance.
Maybe..?
Well, interesting thought. Maybe there is something there… Whether it is true or not, it is always fun with conspiracies!
I have always felt that generally they needed at least three records to go through a particular phase in their evolution.
METAL
1991: Lobotomizer
1992: Soothe
1993: Demon Box
ALTERNATIVE
1994: Timothy’s Monster
1996: Blissard
1997: Angels and Daemons at Play
1998: Trust Us
POP
2000: Let them eat Cake
2001: Phanerothyme
2002: It’s A Love Cult
ROCK
2006: Black Hole/Blank Canvas
2008: Little Lucid Moments
2010: Heavy Metal Fruit
Of course, such nice broad strokes never cover the entire spectrum, especially not of a band as loosely defined musically as Motorpsycho. For example: the country-records seem to end eras (between Demon Box and Timothy’s Monster and between IALC and BH/BC respectively), but Barracuda is right smackdab in the middle of the pop-phase, and COTF is much more in the classic rock vein than the modern progrock of LLM and HMF. And that’s disregarding the EP’s and Roadworks.
Timelines, like periods in art, are always constructed in hindsight and serve the need of the audience and critics to find governing principles in something that develops organically and without a strictly defined principle. People do not seem able to accept that art, like life, does not follow the rules of time, space or ratio, but has its’ own momentum, the direction of which sometimes does not become apparent until years later. Life always seems clearer when you look back on a period than when you’re actually living in that period.
And now I need a drink. NURSE!
Greets,
Thomas
My bet’s on funked up Jazz. They might dive more and more into early 70ties Miles.
I wouldn’t call their first records metal at all though. It’s more some pyschedelic grunge. And Demon Box itself is a genre hopper like nothing else. But great analysis.
My wish: Another rock-monster including even more jazz-elements; then a double album that confronts metal with drone, back to the actual prog-hardrock – followed by some releases digging really deep in different moods of jazz… however, the future is positive :MPD:
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