Dank State hebben ze in 2021-2022 al een handvol keren live gespeeld, er staan hier en daar fragmenten op Youtube. Weer enkele schijnbare verwijzingen naar andere songs en artiesten ook:
- Norway shrugs and stays at home -> America drinks and goes home (Mothers of Invention) ?
- Mull of Dull -> Mull of Kintyre (Wings) ?
- Hotel Daedalus zou toch ook van ergens moeten komen...
Uit beschrijvingen bij de (vele) shows die dit najaar gepland staan (ik post ze zo meteen op de artiestenpagina), blijkt inderdaad de benadering 'korte, psychedelische akoestische songs', eerder dan de NOX'en van deze wereld:
"After a series of epic, sprawling and headphones-friendly albums, Motorpsycho is back with a short, reasonably pop-formatted and intimate album of mainly acoustically based songs. [...] For once playing the game instead of trying to reinvent it, this 10-song album of tunes is clearly a reaction in some way to too much architecture and too many grand visions, and dials the music down to more comprehensive and digestible sizes than have been the band’s métier lately."
"Motorpsycho have always been about the balance between hard and soft, electric and acoustic, big and small, light and shade … and now the time was right for a lighter touch to balance the scales. Yang to the Yin of earlier, more epic works (“N.O.X.”, “The Crucible”, and “Chariot Of The Sun”), this is also an album that is relatively easy on the ears, and that actually works really well with a cup of tea at noon."
“Yay!” was produced by Reine Fiske and Lars Fredrik Swahn, and their production work brings a sweet Swedish psych edge to the album, giving it a lysergic tinge and charging what could easily have been a bit too ‘’backporchy” with an electric vibe that lifts it out of the often staid singer/songwriter genre, but still keeping the intimacy intact."
“While as ever clearly drawing on inspiration from late 60s/early 70s heroes, “Yay!” is as indebted to earlier iterations of Motorpsycho as anything else, and will be recognizable to fans of vintage Motorpsychodelia as well as a breath of fresh air to newer Psychonauts that only ever heard the heavy progressive side of the band.”
Bron:
Motorpsycho to release new album "Yay!" - Chaoszine