motorpsycho

These Norwegian fellows have been around since 1989 and have released a ton of records which I haven’t heard. All I know is that their new one Little Lucid Moments is absolutely mindblowing. Its four songs range from 11 minutes long to the 21 minute, four part suite that is the title track, and cram in so much beautiful stuff that if you listen to a conventional 4-minute rock song afterwards it will seem very, very tame.

To try and catagorize this music is to rob it of its unique greatness, and its influences are wide and yet guileless, but I’ll try to sum them up anyway. Imagine the poppy riffage of Dinosaur Jr., the freewheeling psychedelia of Dungen, the math-tinged metal of Mastodon, the candyfloss coal of My Bloody Valentine, the happy chug of Neu!, the confident cadences of Fugazi, the envelope-pushing canvases of Slint…just please, please buy this album and be reminded how soulful and gorgeous rock music can be. I can’t begin to imagine how amazing they are live.

Here’s the aformentioned 11-minute baby of the record (be patient for streaming/downloads, it’s 21mb):

Motorpsycho – Year Zero (A Damage Report)

Little Lucid Moments is out in the shops in early June, but you can buy it now off the Rune Grammofon website.