Motorpsycho trilogy ending albums are usually great in many cases, and their whole psyche pop trilogy is rather no exception. I am surprised, though, that this album isn’t as talked about as Phanerothyme, or even Let Them Eat Cake. My guess is due to those album’s big successes, this album feels like an odd one in the band’s lofty discography.

I think the reason why It’s a Love Cult has this more odd status in the band’s discography is possibly because after Let ... read more

I don’t really know how to start this review, so I guess we can just get right into it.

So from what I gathered, this is a very lukewarm album for me, but I don’t want to dull over the negatives. I think the album’s strongest element is the instrumentation. I really like the math rock instrumentals on here. Not only do they work mighty well for a more punkish, midwestern Emo sound, but they also are a delight to hear. They remind me of a more fast paced Don Caballero, which I ... read more

If you thought ELP was the king of very elaborate classic sounding prog music, then you clearly have not heard Egg yet. Egg was a Canterbury Scene band founded in the 70s via Dave Stewart, Mont Campbell, and Clive Brooks. It was formed after the legendary Steve Hillage left their previous band. This trio is pretty commonly regarded in the Prog scene as a very weird, but interesting band from Canterbury that would do something highly different from their contemporaries like Caravan, Gong, or ... read more

You know, I am honestly surprised there are not a lot of Prog Metal bands out there that merge a heavy and brutal sound with Zeuhl music. I mean, it isn’t uncommon to see or hear bands feeling some love for Zeuhl bands like Magma; Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree has expressed his love for the genre and Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth also really adores Zeuhl a lot. I never, though, heard any mix of Prog Metal and Zeuhl together, besides Magma’s Šlaǧ Tanƶ. No, I want real, true, ... read more

Wow, never expected to have a band reach out to me to review one of their new albums. That is definitely an exciting thing to notice as it can mean discovering new and interesting music from new, possibly groundbreaking artists. It is fun discovering music. Although, sometimes you might get something that doesn’t work for you, and I find Narrow Is The Road, the newest release of Compassionizer, aka the band that recommended this record, doesn’t quite work for me.

I do not wish to ... read more

Immediately after the release of Let Them Eat Cake, Motorpsycho would start work on their next album, continuing on with their more psychedelic rock efforts. As heterogeneous as the band is, their next effort, while keeping true to their new sound and stylizations, would be a lot different than what may be expected. Where Let Them Eat Cake was their tribute to old progressive rock bands from the 70s, this album feels like a tribute to the 60s psych rock era lead by groups like The Beatles, ... read more

I wouldn’t call myself a Beach Boys fan. Sometimes, once in a blue moon, I’ll check out an album of theirs, but I feel like, especially in the psych rock era of the 60s, they never really stuck out as well for me unlike their contemporaries. I cannot deny, though, their bright and cheery sunshine pop mixed with rock, baroque, folk, and psychedelic influences do create a very infectious feeling in my soul. They are a very feel-good band. Obviously, most people when they think of The ... read more

The turn of a new century marked a new change in Motorpsycho’s approach to music. As with every new release of this band, they try a variety of things like new sounds or new approaches in how they want to craft their albums. With this new release, the band was trying to capture a wider audience in their grasp, while still retaining their very psychedelic, and now more progressive flavors of sound. This obviously makes this record their quote on quote “pop” album, but ... read more

When people think about Alan Parsons, I figure most would think of his production work with The Beatles and Pink Floyd, however it isn’t uncommon for people to think of The Alan Parsons Project too. The Alan Parsons Project were a crossover Prog band from the late 70s through 80s, and is considered to be a real home star runner of the progressive pop in that strange era for Prog music. The project was basically a duo of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson. Most people when they think of this ... read more

I talked about Gazpacho before with Night, but I wanted to do another review for them since I think they are one of the best contemporary Prog rock groups of our generation. I have never been disappointed by any of their releases so far, and while I may think some albums are better than others, I cannot deny that they are a really high quality band that deserves a lot of recognition. Their eclecticism and forward thinking movements lets them be an amazing band and one that I think any Prog fan ... read more

This is the last Motorpsycho album they released in the 90s. Released one year after Angels and Daemons at Play and two promotional EPs, this album would be considered one of the band's best works in their hectic starting decade, and it's easy to see why many people, especially Prog rock fans, gravitate towards this album. I think it's because it released at the perfect time in the 90s when Prog rock was starting to get back into popularity with acts like Porcupine Tree and Dream ... read more

When people think of what Prog rock sounded like in the 70s, most people would think of either the more symphonic stuff of Renaissance or Genesis, and or the jazzy stuff of Gentle Giant or Van Der Graaf Generator. Most people won’t really think of the more space rock side of things unless they are fans of Gong or Pink Floyd. Space rock style of Prog has existed since the 60s but never really caught on with the scene until the 70s, and even then it wouldn’t be the most popular bunch ... read more

Listening to music for pleasure is all the rage, but what about listening to music for pain? Music for masochists, stuff that is displeasing to listen to but still fills the void of sound to where it is very preferable. You could try Harsh Noise like Merzbow, or perhaps some intense Drone Metal like Boris or Sunn O))). However, say you want something a bit more in the Rock vein of things that aren’t just Noise; something to jam to and experience. Something brimming with energy more so ... read more

After their strange venture to more concrete songwriting prowess on Blissard, Motorpsycho would go back to more jammy songs for their next studio album. Unlike previous sonic experiments, the band decided to experiment with releases. Instead of just releasing their next studio workings, the band would instead release three EPs, all with various feels of music, and release them one by one with limited copies, and then combine those EPs together to create their 6th studio work. These three EPs, ... read more

I was originally gonna get this review out on Thanksgiving, but due to family and stuff I couldn’t. That being said, better late than never ‘ey?

Prog Rock in the 70s was definitely dominated by Europe with King Crimson and or Gentle Giant raging through, though in the American continent there was still some hype around a good amount of bands. In South America there are bands like Bubu from Argentina, and Os Mutantes from Brazil. Canada got its fair share of Prog too with Harmonium ... read more

After a little break, I am back on my reviewing tendencies. So within my musical ventures I have found myself getting quite involved with the Progressive Metal scene, especially with newer bands out there, but never fully, head to toes, diving into more “classic” bands. Well I have decided to express my joys and wonder to such classic Prog Metal bands, like Voivod, Opeth, and maybe even a little bit of Symphony X. I think, though, there is no other band from the starting periods of ... read more

Previous albums in the Motorpsycho lineage were experimental in direction, with songs being very jammy and less compositionally structured in a lot of ways. This fact gave the band a more D.I.Y feel to their music which I liked. However after moving to a different label after the release of The Tussler, Motorpsycho decided to create an album that experimented less of brainstorming and jamming with a focus of songwriting, composing, and working more on their newly founded Psychedelic Indie Rock ... read more

Before continuing to experiment with their rock prowess, Motorpsycho would do a quick detour away from their usual affairs and instead go into the country for a tiny bit with this album of The Tussler. This album would be their first straightforward conceptual album they released, but not like some big grand country opera, but instead more of a silly side note in the band’s career. The album itself is a fictional movie soundtrack for a spaghetti western made by the fictional producer Theo ... read more

As a follow up with their album of So Far, Faust decided to do a different type of experiment, which was instead of making a complex and weird krautrock album (which this album definitely is one, but I digress) they instead create an album that’d sell at the same price as a single. While I do not know how much a single would cost in 1973, it clearly was some sort of hit, at least in the UK, selling over 60,000 copies. Whether that number was due to the UK having a bunch of Faust fans, ... read more

Within only one year after the release of Demon Box, Motorpsycho would create the last album of their sort of grunge era trilogy. Lobotomizer consisted of well played stoner rock and grunge music that was both empowering yet unique enough to make them a little more far fetched from the usual grunge bands at the time. Demon Box would expand on it, issuing more songs with a wider scope of genres from folk to indie rock. Now we get into the penultimate album of this trilogy, Timothy’s ... read more