Motrik - Moon: The Cosmic Electrics Of Motrik - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Once called InchAmerica's Best Krautrock Band,Inch Møtrik has long since outgrown the boundaries of geography and imitation. On EARTH, their fourth full-length album, the Portland-based quintet sheds genre pastiche and boldly steps into their own orbit-less homage, more evolution.Where early sci-fi like Astounding Stories imagined futures grounded in scientific plausibility, EARTH occupies a realm where machinery hums with feeling and cosmic logic collides with soul. Here, synths shimmer with stardust, rhythms churn like solar flares, and vocals drift like signals from a lost planet. From the gravity-defying pulse of InchWeightlessInch to the tidal reckoning of InchUltimate Drive,Inch Møtrik charts a course through disorientation, beauty, and the sublime unknown.This isn't retro-futurism-it's the future, now. No tin-cone breastplates, no cartoon ladybots, no techbro rockets. Just fully realized sonic transmissions where science meets magic, and krautrock becomes something galactic.Møtrik aren't just referencing the genre-they're rewriting it. Thirteen years in, it's time to upgrade the superlative. Call them what they are the galaxy's best krautrock band.

Moon - Render of the Veils [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/18/2015

Ave Maria is the latest from Berlin-based trio A Pony Named Olga. Though known in the States primarily from their appearances at several iterations of both SXSW and the Muddy Roots Festival they are a favorite on the live circuit in Western Europe, having played hundreds of dates at clubs and festivals over the past ten years. The band is often lumped onto the InchpsychobillyInch heap but possess a level of musical and lyrical sophistication that discredits this categorization. The band's music is an intense mashup of polka, surf, punk, jazz and rockabilly that is often combined with Latin rhythmic styles. Ave Maria is a fun and wild ride with thoughtful tunes that will appeal to fans of hard-edged roots music.