Motrik - Earth (Blue Vinyl) Limited) (RSD 2024)

Motrik - Earth (Blue Vinyl) Limited) (RSD 2024)Once called "America's Best Krautrock Band," Mtrik has long since outgrown the boundaries of geography and imitation. On EARTH, their fourth full length album, the Portland based quintet sheds genre pastiche and boldly steps into their own orbit less homage, more evolution. Where early sci fi like Astounding Stories imagined futures grounded in scientific plausibility, EARTH occupies a realm where machinery hums with feeling and cosmic logic collides

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the day after their sold-out Treats 10-Year Anniversary show at Webster Hall and ahead of a headline US tour throughout October and February

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Towering and Flowering

" evokes the era's hippie back-to-the-earth movement

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spearheaded by singer and principal songwriter Alex Ebert would go on to release three more albums and tour worldwide even while the line up changed over the years with Ebert remaining one of the five constants

David "Fathead Newman"

minimal verses to a sing-song chorus

in the months between

The event was described by Wavy Gravy as a "mini-Woodstock

he used each side of his LPs to create a deep groove that pulls the listener in and follows with metaphoric lyrics that call out and critique the corrupt hangover of colonialism