Holy Motors' wanderlust gallop of Country Church from their upcoming sophomore album "Horse" dropping October 16th, 2020 (via the Brooklyn based Wharf Cat Records) with it's dreamy country hippie punk sway steeped in surf punk affections and a sense of bohemian intoxication feels like it would emanate from the outskirts of Nashville or maybe Joshua Tree in California but no, this beautiful cowboy hatted hug comes from Tallinn, Estonia. Yeah, I had to google that location too.
Of the song,
Guitarist Lauri Raus offers this about the song: “Country Church was written while we were driving from Tennessee to Texas. Its our own spin of a country tune. Its about failing romantic relationships and the profound mental blues. It’s an honest one. Dealing with a failing romantic relationship and how low that gets you. Maybe that’s the whole reason as to why it came out in country-style guitar little bit. Because country music is just three chords and the truth, right?"
I love the sound that Holy Motors conjure up on 'Country Church' and when the gallop becomes a slow motion serenade during the outro, you want to fully join in the gospel.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:HOLY MOTORS is a Tallinn, Estonia based dark twang & reverb band from a nonexistent movie.
Though their music has often been tied to American roots music, Holy Motors were formed in Tallinn, Estonia in 2013, when founding member Lauri Raus (songwriter/guitar) recruited Eliann Tulve to join the band as songwriter and lead vocalist. With Tulve’s gorgeously foreboding vocals serving as a ballast for the guitar section’s “infinity-pool-style shimmer” (Pitchfork) the band quickly became as un-ignorable as they were inscrutable.
2018 saw the band release their critically acclaimed debut LP, Slow Sundown, which won them praise from Stereogum (Album of the Week), Bandcamp (Album of the Day) and DIY (Neu Pick) to name a few. They even landed on one of their very own idols’s radar - Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre - who went on to work closely with the band in 2019.
Since then Holy Motors' incongruence has only grown all the more prevalent and endearing. They remain musicians from an ex-Soviet country who write songs that have been described as “shoegaze that sounds like the old West” (The Fader).The resulting mystique, paired with their ability to write lyrics and music that resonate with a deeply relatable feeling of isolation, has allowed their music to connect with people from devoted shoegaze and western psychedelia fanatics to dreamer cowboys, driving through wide open country roads under the stars.
Their second album Horse will land 10/16/2020 via Wharf Cat Records.
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