9 Jan 2025
Psychonauts! As a part of the Big Re-shuffle in the Psychoverse, quite a few things changed. We are now running NFGS ourselves and are trying to keep track of all the logistics and business stuff that Rune and the Stickies used to do for us. We are learning and finding new ways, and trying to get our heads around the minutea of all the stuff that…..
1 Nov 2024
Sometimes, it feels imperative to forge ahead. Other times it feels more prescient to embrace one’s former selves and reacquaint oneself with patterns of old. And sometimes these two artistic impulses actually (in modern parlance) mash up, and it feels like one’s walking backwards into the future. On such occasions, some sound or notion will often bring back sensory memories of one kind or another. The…..
3 Jul 2024
… ”Evenin’ all! This is yr captain speaking” … Alright, it’s been a while since I did one of these. Out of practice, but with a feeling this needs doing. So much has happened over the last two years, but so little has been communicated, and confusion levels are a bit too high in the Psychoverse for comfort. Hope this helps. First off, let me explain.By…..
20 Jun 2024
Preorder start: 28.06.2024Release date: 23.08.2024Format: LP / Digital There are songs that makes friends with anyone and do great at parties, doling out compliments left, right and center. And then there are those songs that just don’t seem to fit in, songs that knock over glasses and makes awkward comments to the host as they stubbornly refuse to adapt and adjust to whatever larger setting you…..
26 Apr 2024
Psycholab is the first single from Motorpsychos 32nd studio album. Hedonism is the last resort of the desperately disillusioned, so a party song in the face of adversity -Viking style. Or maybe not… – feels appropriate and prescient in 2024. Psycholab is a pop song derived from dance performance music that was inspired by the Velvet Underground and 60’s performance art, but has a folksy vibe…..
23 Feb 2024
The great NFGS singles program 2024 Since the beginning back in the pre-grunge era of the 80’s, the members of Motorpsycho have loved the single: the 7’’ and the 10’’, the CD single and later, the digital single – no matter the format: nothing quite compares to the 3min-something kick of a good song played really well! It’s the aural equivalent of a one nite stand:…..
23 Jun 2023
The album is finally out, you knew that, but have you seen our new video? Made by Lacktr, it gets to the heart of the matter: we are indeed only puppets, and it’s the stranger in the tinfoil hat that calls the shots… From the album Yay! (2023) Written by: Bent Sæther Hans Magnus Ryan: lead & background vocals, electric guitarsBent Sæther: background vocals, acoustic guitars,…..
2 May 2023
In the winter of 2021, after almost a year of covid lockdowns, masks and fear of the plague, we Motorpsychos realized that most of our usual work routines were no longer applicable: no one could travel, people were stuck in their homes, cultural activities wound down everywhere, and options were increasingly limited for a working rock band: inertia and entropy loomed. As the months went by,…..