TRUST US

Motorpsycho

Eclectic Prog

4.09 | 115 ratings

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Another year, another double-album.

Trust Us boasts excellent production (they miked up a PA in the studio, and let every sound run through it before it was laid down on tape) A bunch of guest players too (experimental violinist/weirdo Odd Henrik 'OHM' Moe, sax-player Trygve Seim and drummer Jarle Vespestad from jazz/impro-band Supersilent among others)

In retrospect, this is said to be the psychedelic stoner-rock album of Motorpsycho. Songs like Psychonaut, The Ocean In Her Eye, Evernine and Radiance Freq. all fit the cathegory: Long songs alternating hard-rocking, well-written parts with psychedelic dynamic parts of occasional chaos.

Then there are the grandiose epics that gradually builds up and erupts like volcanos of anger: Vortex Surfer, 577 and Taifun all have main parts that start off like plaintive chants of beauty. Then they start showing their sense of dynamics, and building the songs up to noisy, yet grandiose and powerful climaxes/codas �la the finest King Crimson-epics.

There are also four shorter songs on the album to diversify the picture even more: Ozone is a rather bluesy throwaway imho, Mantrick Muffin Stomp is a cool hard-rocker with an Eastern-sounding Mellotron main "riff", Coventry Boy is a ballad with poor, offkey singing. And the final one, Hey Jane is a very catchy pop-rocker spiced with sitars and Mellotrons (and to date one of Motorpsycho's biggest hits)

This is a very solid album. Unfortunately I can't give it 4 stars because one song is a total rip-off of The Stooges' Fun House (Superstooge, although a good song), two are throwaway (Ozone and Coventry Boy) and two interludes of varying quality (Siddhartino is the playing of reindeer antlers which fit nicely between Vortex Surfer and 577, while Dolphyn is a jazz outro ending the album with a big non-descript question mark)

But still Trust Us is a very good album, and should be a mandatory part of any respectable record collection :D

tired_feet | 5/5 | 2010-4-19

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