Motorpsycho

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pautonnierolivier
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pautonnierolivier another masterpiece from my favorite band.(since heavy metal fruit)
Neotzar is perfect. the perfect magma zeuhl heritage i like.
olivier from France Favorite track: Neotzar (The Second Coming).
Nuts On The Radio
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Nuts On The Radio The Comeback drew me to this album, and it's 'Zeppelin meets The Allman Brothers' inventive, organic and ecstatic progressive and psychedelic rock meant that I HAD to buy it. Favorite track: The Comeback.
impressivelad
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impressivelad Yet another fantastic album from Motorpsycho, this one is much more of a space-krautrock affair balanced with some nice pop-rock numbers. The longer tracks are quite repetitive, built around motorik drumming and interlocking guitar rhythms, but listening closely there's a lot of interesting thought and structure underneath. It astonished me how it's impossible for these guys to put out a bad album.

also knocking it out of the park in the album cover department Favorite track: Three Frightened Monkeys.
StrangeFlow
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StrangeFlow I can't fucking believe how long you guys are going strong already - so many years and you keep dropping these crazy progressive rock monsters. One should assume you'd run out of ideas at some point, but you keep going with this beautiful journey. Count me in for all future adventures like this. Definitely one of my favourite rock bands of all time (the live shows blow your mind 3 hours of madness). Favorite track: Balthazaar.
Pathways
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Pathways A few months on and I can say for sure this is the most regularly spun Motorpsycho album in a while for me. Not that the last few haven't been unwaveringly excellent, but a certain darkness has receded and the lads sound sunnier and mor relaxed. Not having a drummer integrated into the band means we don't get some of the dazzling jazz licks, but we get plenty of rockin' good vibes and that sure is welcome in these times.
Jacob Solberg
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Jacob Solberg Very good record. And very impressive Motorpsycho pulls this off again and again after so many years. Definitely 8 out of 10.
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1.
Lucifer, Bringer Of Light (Sæther) lightbringer - rise for us today we’re lost in the shadows llightbringer - help us find the way trace our trajectory predict our approach hurling mindless, matter - power - force we’re just passive riders in orbit, no way to change the course no frame of reference no guiding light what agent yet has shown a path worthy of walking no ruler, saint or psychopath all misguided impulses all wrongful belief bringer of light a wild and wondrous sight bringer of light a beam of light that shines on through the night so bright and keeps us all safe while we hurl on through the void find compassion, love in every way an ideal for living the dark manoeuvres, mindgames we all play are just the pointless practices of delusional fools it’s easy, smile and make a friend the small things all matter misguided you stop and start again keeping your promises killing the lies Venus / Lucifer the darkness dies
2.
LAIRD OF HEIMLY (Sæther) i dont belive in conquest i dont belive in war i don’t belive in rulers anymore i don’t accept their reasons they all just reek of lies of greed and of ambition and of demise i dont belive in leaders they’re only human too no slaves and no masters just me & you so blame me for my actions I’ll make my own mistakes ill try to sort the real from the fake all in a dream all in a dream i dreamt so long ago all in a dream all in a dream untill tomorrow leave me out of your delusions and ill leave you out of mine let’s just accept each other and be kind
3.
Stanley (Tonight's the Night) (Sæther) I want to see the stars tonight! the winter moon and the northern lights! I want to feel alive again to paint the town with my favourite friends tonight's the night you can fly me as a kite, I'll be alright, I'm that light-headed! if someone could just kiss me I could feel like Paul Stanley! I want to see your face again it's been too long, I can't maintain the feelings you evoke in me without your smile to set me free so tonight's the night you can fly me as a kite and I'll be alright, I'm that light-headed! but launch me right, I'll want to sail all night I'll be the rocket launched to soar intrepid! I want to see the stars tonight! the winter moon and the northern lights! I want to feel alive again to paint the town with my favourite friends tonight's the night!
4.
The Comeback 04:31
The Comeback (Sæther) there is always another one an undiscovered special one there is always a second chance one more lovely, one last dance well, it ain’t over until it’s over stepping into my sailing shoes, I can kill those young man blues I can rule my own world again Not be Abel, but be Cain I will bounce back and make my comeback cause it ain’t over until it’s over Sitting here in my lonely room I can hear the bells of doom I can hear their clarion call I see the writing on the wall Let me dream all my nights away Let me sing what I cannot say Let me peel all the years away What I was is all I have today and I will bounce back and make my comeback Cause it ain’t over until it’s over
5.
Kip Satie 02:24
Kip Satie (Ryan) instrumental
6.
Balthazaar 11:39
Balthazaar (Sæther,Ryan) so they will bury his shell today: take his sad, used up body away someone will sing his song it will be beautiful and real sad they will all talk of good times they had then he'll be all beyond you always hope that it will go on, cause you are never totally done and it's that next thing you love but I will miss him because I can both the idea and the man that I am blessed to have known balthazaar noone will never ever hear it quite that way noone will really ever get it anyway if they deserve to get it, serve it hard and fast, push on past, use that greed - let 'em all bleed noone will never ever want to hear you lie noone will never want to watch you sob and sigh the humble joker, power broker, tells no lie, flies on by, shows the hole, nourishes the soul balthazaar please no more statues, and no more saints no portaits lathered in gaudy paints, but let us love them all ‘cause it is all over when they are gone there's no more fresh starts for anyone it is all over balthazaar
7.
Bed Of Roses 03:19
Bed Of Roses (Sæther) this isn’t Venus, this isn’t Apollo it’s not the advent of the bringer of light the tides are pulling us deeper and deeper into the chaos of darkness and night the cracks are showing - man the boats darkness is growing - put on your coat i turn my back on these agents of chaos I hate their smell and I don’t trust their words they come with doubt, with hate and suspicion: a wolfpack circling, and you are the herd the cracks are showing - man the boats darkness is growing put on your coat I think the speed is making us shallow easy answers are never the best the hole just seems like it keeps getting deeper y’all failin’ the acid test why choose to do the work of the devil what would you reap from sowing discontent? they’ve lit a fire in the bed of roses now flowers die in flaming arguments the cracks are showing - man the boats darkness is growing - shit shure floats
8.
NEOTZAR (the second coming) (Sæther-Ryan) l leg of toad, wing of bee there’s two for you and three for me in the pot, bubbly stew there’s some for me but more for you stir the cauldron, stir… eye of newt, lock of hair a cup of lust, a pinch of fear in it goes, lovely brew now here’s a riddle just for you what new beast will rise? spawned from what new lies? A darkness bringer, shrouded in what guise? ll the day will come when The Beast is here and everything will turn the earth will tremble, the ground will shake - your towers will all burn Oh, E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O what strange beast woken will march again the horsemen all ride out the walls will tumble as trumpets blare locusts, plague & drought Oh, E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O there’s no beginning, there is no end only seasons change two thousand years to be born again the hour seems so strange what beast awoken is on it’s way what force will be revealed turning & turning, the widening gyre our fates will all be sealed oh, E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O the second coming is here at last centuries have passed a new redeemer is on his way his minions are amassed a change is coming, a new day’s here it’s hours filled with wrath there is no hiding, no safe space left what burning bitter broth… oh, E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O E I O Sab E O - Sab E O, E I O
9.
Core Memory Corrupt ( Sæther) In just a glimmer it was there again, and I recognized the one I knew a million years ago, the one I idolized. I had forgotten, I had quite ignored just how it felt... ah, but time is passing slowly and you never change your mind It made me look again at all of this, it lit the dark a little fragment of a memory- just a little spark sometimes that´s all it takes to make it all feel real again time is passing slowly you never change your mind Less than expected, just some respect and attention less than expected please no more condescention less than expected just for someone to take notice less than expected just want to see yr smile time is passing slowly and you never change your mind the pathways never taken, options you dismissed so confused and shaken, the choices that led to this oh, but the memory remains close oh, and the feeling never goes there is a sparkle and there is a gleam behind the veil there is a knowledge and and a memory that´s not for sale I sometimes wonder and I sometimes dream, but I never ever act ah, but time is passing slowly and you never change your mind never forgotten I wonder what happened to you? never forgotten you don´t remember me do you? never forgotten my memory stays forever never forgotten just thought I saw that smile
10.
THREE FRIGHTENED MONKEYS (Sæther) countdown commencing psychonaut stand-by rockets ready ignition time is nigh lift off impending, metal ascending payload: three frightened monkees sunup/sundown beyond earth, the sky clearing orbit to escape! to fly! lift off impending, metal ascending payload: three frightened monkees surfing lightning we soar the sky sublime travel the spaceways until the end of time lift off impending, metal ascending payload: three frightened monkees an endless horizon no more geocide eternal newness worth the bumpy ride lift off impending, metal ascending payload: three frightened monkees
11.
Dead Of Winter (Sæther) it’s not as if I failed to try I found I couldn’t run and I wouldn’t lie slow to anger, built to last feeling tense and wired and fading fast so tired sun arise I’m so tired now the dead of winter winter days so dull and grey somehow they aren’t lived, they just fade away all life known will wax and wane it will live and die to live again so tired sun arise I’m so tired bring the light I’m so tired now the dead of winter what goes around sure comes around to the sun the world looks black at this depth the abyss stares back

about

After two pandemically conditioned ‘reaction’ albums - Yay! (2023) and Neigh!! (2024) - a few non-album singles and a compilation album, a downsized and sleek Motorpsycho is back where we all know and love them, with an epic, sprawling double album, filled to the brim with inventive, organic and ecstatic rock-based music. Rejoyce Psychonaut!

This eponymously titled, 11 song work, has exactly as much variety & diversity, accord and discord, as one expects from a band that has released a few albums before, and that these days must be regarded as an institution in European rock. From concise 3min-something pop-rockers, to 20mins-plus progressive epics, via acoustic intimacies and psychedelic wig-outs, this is concentrated Motorpsychosis: commenced Rebis, countdown initiated. Ever closer. Ever sharper...

Since the traditional 3 or 4 piece rock band seems to be a dying breed these days, and MP always was a band in flux anyway, a new pragmatic era has begun in the Psychoverse. The band has, in what one might call alchemical terms, been ‘dissolved and purified’, and is by now again reduced to the core two founding members HMR & BS. This is nothing new, it has happened a few times before, but these days they are also the owners and creators of the record company NFGS, which is now the hub of all recorded band activity, and Motorpsycho marks the final severance of existing ties to other labels for the first time in 35 years. If ‘freedom is free of the need to be free’, this is it. Yikes!

The minimalist title of the album is then not just easy to remember, it’s also a statement: a new era has begun in the Psychoverse, a state of affairs reflected in execution and details as well as title, if not perhaps, in ambition or size: “Senex psittacus negligit ferulam” *.
This is a time of new beginnings for a band that has spent two years consolidating and reseting before charging ahead anew on a new path, trumpets blaring (...and trumpets don’t come much more blaring in the Psychoverse than with this grandiloquent hyperbole. Good fun! ). New day rising indeed.

The core band was adroitly helped by a gaggle of greats from all over the Scandinavian musical landscape on these recordings: drummers Ingvald Vassbø and Olaf Olsen, string arranger/violinist Mari Persen, vocalist Thea Grant, and - as usual - honorary psycho, brother Reine Fiske, were all fellow travellers on this musical journey.
Motorpsycho was co-produced by the band and Deathprod, and mixed by Andrew Scheps.

Motorpsycho are not the best at what they do, they’re the only ones that do what they do.

NFGS2025

*: [ “Senex psittacus negligit ferulam,” or “An old parrot doesn’t mind the stick.” ]

credits

released February 21, 2025

01.Lucifer, Bringer Of Light 10:49
(Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead & background vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, percussion, mellotron, synthesizers, electric piano
Hans Magnus Ryan: electric guitars, background vocals
Ingvald Vassbø: drums

02. Laird Of Heimly 3:54
(Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead vocals, acoustic 6 & 12 string guitars, percussion, synthesizers, mellotron,
Hans Magnus Ryan: background vocals
Mari Persen: strings

03. Stanley (Tonight’s The Night) 4:10
(Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead & background vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, percussion
Hans Magnus Ryan: electric lead guitars, background vocals
Reine Fiske: electric guitar
Olaf Olsen: drums

04. The Comeback 4:32
(Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead & background vocals, acoustic guitars, bass guitar, percussion, organ, mellotron
Hans Magnus Ryan: electric guitars, background vocals
Reine Fiske: electric guitar
Olaf Olsen: drums

05. Kip Satie 2:25
(Hans Magnus Ryan)
Hans Magnus Ryan: piano
Bent Sæther: mellotron

06. Balthazaar 11:40
(Hans Magnus Ryan / Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: background vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, mellotron,
synthesizers, omnichord
Hans Magnus Ryan: lead & background vocals, electric lead & rhythm guitars, mellotron
Ingvald Vassbø - drums

07. Bed Of Roses 3:19
(Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead vocals, acoustic guitars, bass guitars, mellotron, electric piano, percussion
Hans Magnus Ryan: background vocals, synthesizer

08. Neotzar (The Second Coming) 21:07
(Hans Magnus Ryan / Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead & background vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, bass guitar, mellotron, synthesizer, electric piano, percussion
Hans Magnus Ryan: electric guitars, background vocals
Thea Grant: vocals
Ingvald Vassbø: drums

09. Core Memory Corrupt 5:38
(Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead & background vocals, electric guitars, bass guitar, percussion, synthesizer, piano, mellotron
Hans Magnus Ryan: lead & background vocals, electric guitar
Ingvald Vassbø: drums

10. Three Frightened Monkeys 8:41
(Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead & background vocals, electric rhythm guitars, bass guitar, percussion, synthesizer, piano, mellotron
Hans Magnus Ryan: background vocals, electric lead & slide guitars
Ingvald Vassbø: drums

11. Dead Of Winter 5:24
(Bent Sæther)
Bent Sæther: lead & background vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, bass guitar, percussion, mellotron
Hans Magnus Ryan: background vocals, electric guitars
Ingvald Vassbø: drums


Produced by Motorpsycho & Deathprod
Recorded at Ye Olde Cheese Factory
by B.S. and in Amper Tone studio by
Kim Lillestøl & Tomas Pettersen
*Produced by Motorpsycho
recorded at Ye Olde Cheese Factory,
engineered by B.S.
†Produced by Motorpsycho
Recorded at home by H.M.R. Overdubs
Recorded at Ye Olde Cheese Factory by B.S.

Mixed by Andrew Scheps at Punkerpad UK
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab

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