Motorpsycho - You Gotta Hang On To The Trip You're On...

Norway's Motorpsycho are one of the most prolific psychedelic revivalist outfits around, cranking out albums with abandon. Some of them are good: last year's Phanerothyme, for instance, was a brilliant evocation of Arthur Lee and Love's acid- fried, sun-baked paranoia. And some aren't quite as good: It's A Love Cult is something of an overcooked prog-rock pudding, its blustering excesses indicated by titles like "This Otherness" and particularly "Uberwagner or A Billion Bubbles In My Mind". Dopehead conjectures and whimsical ruminations on the cyclical nature of things are bathed in full-on psychedelic orchestrations which pursue pointlessly convoluted courses for five or six minutes apiece (apart from the concluding "Composite Head", which recalls "Last Train To Clarksville"). Sample lyric: "I've woken from dreams to find nightmares instead". Quite.

Andy Gill


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	Motorpsycho IT'S A LOVE CULT Review of It's a Love Cult taken from the British music magazine UNCUT #67 / December 2002. In English. Sent in by Ove Wiksten. Motorpsycho IT'S A LOVE CULT Rating: 2 out of 6 Scandinavian psychedelicists go prog Norway's Motorpsycho are one of the most prolific psychedelic revivalist outfits around, cranking out albums with abandon. Some of them are good: last year's Phanerothyme, for instance, was a brilliant evocation of Arthur Lee and Love's acid- fried, sun-baked paranoia. And some aren't quite as good: It's A Love Cult is something of an overcooked prog-rock pudding, its blustering excesses indicated by titles like "This Otherness" and particularly "Uberwagner or A Billion Bubbles In My Mind". Dopehead conjectures and whimsical ruminations on the cyclical nature of things are bathed in full-on psychedelic orchestrations which pursue pointlessly convoluted courses for five or six minutes apiece (apart from the concluding "Composite Head", which recalls "Last Train To Clarksville"). Sample lyric: "I've woken from dreams to find nightmares instead". Quite. Andy Gill Back to the Record Reviews page...