JamBase Questionnaire: Motopony
By Team JamBase Jul 5, 2011 • 10:55 am PDT
There’s a glassy, tomorrow leaning vibe to Seattle’s Motopony, modernity in the archetypal sense permeating the many appealing, artfully warbled grooves on their nicely varied self-titled debut (released May 23 on tinyOGRE). At first they seem like a newfangled child of The Cars and other 80s futurist-popsters but let the record play and soon a warming flush appears in their cheeks, finding full incarnation on the jubilant cry against sorrowful morbidity “I Am My Body,” the grave welcomed with rolling piano and clattering percussion, before see-sawing between chrome-plated shimmer and beautifully trundling ditties. What becomes obvious long before Motopony reaches “Euphoria” at album’s close is expectations get you nowhere with this band. They vibe with some of what Grizzly Bear, Dr. Dog and AgesandAges are putting out but the complications and that distinctly contemporary edge carve out their own space. Motopony is one of those lovely bands that arrive fully-formed, overflowing with choice ingredients, playing to no one’s sensibilities but their own, and knocking out hugely infectious music in the bargain. (Dennis Cook)
Here’s what Motopony’s lead singer and songwriter Daniel Blue had to say to our inquiries.
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1. Great music rarely happens without…
Surrender
2. The first album I bought was…
Bush’s Sixteen Stone
3. The last song or album to really flip my wig was…
Grizzly Bear’s Friend EP (Side A only)
4. When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be…
A rock star or an astronaut.
5. My favorite sort of gig is…
When I find the moment.
6. One thing I wish people knew about me is…
What actually happens in my head.
7. I love the sound of…
Hard rain on a flat roof above your bed.
8. One day I hope to make an album as fantastic as…
Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush
9. The best meal I ever had on tour was at…
This health food joint called Thyme near KCRW in Santa Monica, CA.
10. I always find the coolest audiences in…
My imagination.
11. The worst habit I’ve picked up being on the road all the time is…
Slouching. Good posture is important for your health.
12. Led Zeppelin or Radiohead, which flips your switch the most and why?
I love them both at different ages. How old am I when you ask me this?
13. The craziest thing I ever saw was…
I used to live in crack alley in Tacoma, Washington. Think of it as a drive through window for street drugs next to a homeless shelter. Not much fazes me anymore. I feel like I’ve seen just about all of it.
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