Motorpsycho

[Thenop]

And again!

1996 - Sinful / Wind Borne
The 3rd single from what they back then called their 'pop' album, and it is a catchy tune for sure. Backed with a Lynyryd Skynyrd cover: Workin' for MCA.

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/sinful-wind-borne

2016 - Spin Spin Spin
A laid back dreamy tune (an edit), seems to be a cover but I don't know the original, backed with Go Around Once and acoustic balled.
The interesting part of this is that the album the single was taken from, is an progressive very long winded tune album: Here be Monsters. it was followed by Here be Monsters II, a tour only release for which I just noticed copies start around 100 EUR..
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/spin-spin-spin

[Nickslikk2112]

2016 - Spin Spin Spin
A laid back dreamy tune (an edit), seems to be a cover but I don't know the original, backed with Go Around Once and acoustic balled.

It was written by an American folk singer Terry Callier

Motorpsycho's version is closer to the cover by HP Lovecraft

[Thenop]

1 loose song and 1 EP:

1996 - Mad Sun, a track from the Blissard period. A very echo-ey effort much in line with their alternative rock period.
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/track/mad-sun
https://youtu.be/GWkOq0m7Smo?si=5TOU3WRKCt-qIfVX

1999 - The Other Fool EP. Now we're talking! One of my very favourite MP tracks (albeit in edited form here). Such a great tune, the opener for Let Them Eat Cake, this has it all: great song writing, playing, lyrics, a bass that souds like ahuge cat is purring under your seat, acoustic guitars, strings, a horns section. Fantastic!
(Yes I am aware this ios not the clip, but ths is the full version, which does it justice!)
https://youtu.be/LfDGDv_NWNY?si=oFqYx7IlUELjQt9r
4 other tracks on here:
The Sailboat Song a dreamy acoustic ditty hat feels like you are adrift on a huge lake. Johnny Finds a Leak a lo-fi effort as is Jumpin' Flashback modelled after, well you know who
We end proceedings with Funk '99 which is very ehm, funky
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-fool-ep

[Thenop]

Did I forget last week..? Well, no. And yes.
Last Monday there was no single release, it was preponed to the Friday before that, the Friday before record store day because a UK only CD compilation was released on RSD with (of course!) one new song.
Psycholab is a nice enough tune, give it a listen if you want to, the single version is the edited version. I have yet to hear the full version.
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/psycholab-single-edit

So this week then? Yes, of course.
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/the-nerve-tattoo
1995 - The Nerve Tattoo a single release preluding the Blissard album. It is a really poppy tune, again an edit, but nearly complete. Uptempo with  a lovely chorus.
the 4 other tunes on here:
Of Beacons and Beams sounds like a carnival ride and is just an interlude at 1:14
The banjo driven The Wheel is a near 8 minute exercise in patience. Nothing really happens but it has a strange hold over me.
Pale Day is a subdued little tune
And Mad Sun has many incarnations in the MP discography, this is the "short version" of this alternative tune

The second release today is
2000 - Walkin With J
https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/walkin-with-j-ep
This one is a bit special, not just because it is a fantastic track from a fantastic album (Let Them Eat Cake) But also because drummer Hakon Gebhardt ("Geb") wrote the lead off track, he also has a hand in all the other tracks. Geb would leave the band a year or 2 later.
Walkin With J a track laden with brass and keys while still being  a very rock effort makes for pleasant listening. I really like this track.
Junkfood Mailbomb tries hard to be melodic but the overabudance of drums and overall sound make for a listen that goes down more difficult than the title track. I do really like it though.
Captain Geebheart (take a guess who it is about..) sounds like a Primus outtake recorded in the '70s (sung by Geb himself), good fun!
KR3 (Parts 1+2) imitates a casio keyboard with a vocal line, a vocoder at the end. Again good fun, but not for repeated listening
Abendspaziergang (loosely translates as Evening Walk) again sounds like a carnival ditty

[Thenop]

And todays' release:

1990 - Maiden Voyage - indeed the debut, 4 track demo. not the best soundng, it was transferred from tape. 3 studio tracks, 1 live.
All 4 of them sound rough, a real demo then. A try out. The band would evolve a lot over the years. Still I like the studio tracks. They have a very punky alternative edge to them. Track 4 Blueberry Daydreamshows the bands love for acoustic, and it's already quite an accomplished song, very kuch as the band would remain to sound when doing acoustics with vocal harmonies. Clearly the highlight from this tape.

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/maiden-voyage

1998 - Hey Jane
This is one of the singles off of Trust Us and it's a lovely tune. Sitar driven in the verses it's one of the shorter songs on the album.
Mellow Muffin' Stomp and Celestine are eerie or dreamy (depending on when you kisten to them I suppose) songs. I like them a lot, they have a sort of free floating quality about them. Valis is an alternative type of banjo tune, minute and a half and it's over.
The track that actually comes for the album sessions here is The Ballad of Pat & Put, it sounds like a re-worked piece from Blissard but it's good, downtempo. not the cheeriest of EPs, then again not everything's always cheerie now is it?

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/hey-jane

[Thenop]

New album alert!

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/neigh

[Thenop]

Oh yes! Pre-ordered!

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/motorpsycho

[Slim]

Oh yes, I like that Stanley tune. Downloaded it. Will play at at one of my Second Life DJ sets.

[Thenop]

Vinyl was just delivered, 6 days prior to the release date. I guess being self supportive also means making and breaking your own rules.

Anyway, 81 minutes of music to digest, 7 regular to short songs, 1 8+ minute, 2 10+ minute and 1 21 minute epic. That feels like my Motorpsycho!

[Thenop]

The boys are at in again, a re-issue of Child of the Future, a lovely 2008 recording sesion with the ate great Steve Albini is being re-issued. Only 500 vinyl copies are being pressed so if you want it, get it now.

And... another one! Albeit a weird one, and no vinyl release (yet).
There are all kinds of summits, but the Mountains
of Madness top all others. The Ahsol Caravan was
the ultimate challenge, and together they found
the highest high. But also the deepest depths.

Edit: bandcamp of course

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/child-of-the-future-2025-remaster


Considered a lost film for close to 50 years, Theo Buhara's AHSOL CARAVAN can now finally be experienced as the independent movie masterpiece it is, and as a true cinematic phoenix, with a spectacular soundtrack to boot, written by Motorpsycho, the very same band that scored his neo-spaghetti western THE TUSSLER in the early 90's.

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/ahsol-caravan

Release of both is October 3rd

[Thenop]

Both now out on Bandcamp.
The Ahsol Caravan one is to be treaded with cuation, being a soundtrack to a fictive film is pretty experimental. Being a fanboi I like it, but I can imagine the more casual listener mkight label it 'not even music'.

The Child of the Future remaster sounds HUGE. Fantastic, vinyl has been pre-alerted so it'll spinning its' rounds soon here.

[Thenop]

new single!

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/track/fanny-again-or-2

"Psychonauts!

New single out today, Fanny Again Or. This Bent sung fable is a shot of adrenaline that fairly reeks of the Osmonds (and comes with a faint whiff of the Hammer of the Gods). It is a riffy proposition that can't help but get the blood up in any and every true rocker!"

[Thenop]

Another year, another album.
I need new Motorpsycho like I need air.

So I can breathe again..

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/the-gaia-ii-space-corps

[Thenop]

Really liking the imagery..
https://motorpsycho.no/2026/01/the-gaia-ii-space-corps-preorder-and-new-single/

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