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HOLY MOTORS – ” Country Church “

Posted: July 15, 2020 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Though their music has often been tied to American roots music, Holy Motors were formed in Tallinn, Estonia in 2013, when founding member Lauri Raus (songwriter/guitar) recruited Eliann Tulve to join the band as songwriter and lead vocalist. With Tulve’s gorgeously foreboding vocals serving as a ballast for the guitar section’s “infinity-pool-style shimmer” the band quickly became as un-ignorable as they were inscrutable. 2018 saw the band release their critically acclaimed debut LP, Slow Sundown, which won them praise from Stereogum (Album of the Week), Bandcamp (Album of the Day) and DIY (Neu Pick) to name a few.

They even landed on one of their very own idols’s radar – Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre – who went on to work closely with the band in 2019. Since then Holy Motors’ incongruence has only grown all the more prevalent and endearing. They remain musicians from an ex-Soviet country who write songs that have been described as “shoegaze that sounds like the old West” .The resulting mystique, paired with their ability to write lyrics and music that resonate with a deeply relatable feeling of isolation, has allowed their music to connect with people from devoted shoegaze and western psychedelia fanatics to dreamer cowboys, driving through wide open country roads under the stars. Their second album Horse will land 16th October 2020 via Wharf Cat Records.

“Country Church” is from Holy Motors ‘Horse’ LP (out 10/16) you can pre-order LP/CD/Special Edition LP here https://www.wharfcatrecords.com/store…

HOLY MOTORS – ” Slow Sundown “

Posted: April 8, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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HOLY MOTORS is a Tallinn, Estonia based on dark twang & reverb sound like a band from a nonexistent movie. It bows to engines and echos and film-directors. Cinematic suspension is often more than not what drives the band towards a melody and meaning.  It’s “psychedelic rock that hits like a dream despite undoubtedly seeking to soundtrack nightmares”. Thankfully, Slow Sundown, Holy Motors’ debut full length release, finds the Estonian dream catchers utilizing a similar sonic palette ranging from dark psychedelic pop to shoegaze-inflected western music. But much like 2015’s Heavenly Creatures 7”vinyl, provided only a fleeting glimpse into the sounds that their music evokes.

Slow Sundown’s eight tracks offer a more immersive experience for those brave enough to take the ride. While the guitar lines from lonely cowboy ballads like “Honeymooning” could easily serve as the central themes for unwritten Morriccone scores, dystopian anthems like the rhythmically propelled Signs break new ground for the band and demonstrate that Holy Motors are not bound by their influences. Thematically the album is comprised primarily of sad love songs centered around the idea of motion – the motion of a satellite orbiting a planet, the motion of a passenger riding shotgun in a car – as it relates to stellar-scale and existential isolation. Produced by Merchandise’s Carson Cox and recorded at Brooklyn’s Kutch1 Studios when the band was visiting the US on tourist visas, Slow Sundown is a beautiful alien artifact that definitively delivers on everything we have been promised by Holy Motors’ work to date.

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In it´s time, Holy Motors have supported Sic Alps, Dirty Fences and Mystery Train. The latter a movie by Jim Jarmusch.