"I drew your face again / on my office desk / with the blood I drew from my hand / like it was just a daily task..."
The wonky vastness of "My Riders" by Amsterdam's CLOCKTOPUS feels like a sonic spiral into something mysterious and unsteady. Running down roads pushed by plucky banjo, snaking bass line and drums while organs drone in sometimes other worldly ways and clangs of sound assault your senses makes for a cinematic wide, or at least one if this were a late night indie midnight movie. The blend of trash punk, psychedelic rock, art rock provides a seemingly ever changing framework for Wout Kemkens' wide eyed lead vocals sometimes chorused by gang vox.
It is all a vast journey, as is the Official Video.
LINER NOTES:
LINER NOTES:
[Alternative rock turns into orchestra hiphop-blues. An adventurous track in every sense of the word. From the intro with a slight wonky banjo into an balls-out chorus with call and respond choirs. It's a celebration of friendship, making music and the combination of those two.]
CLOCKTOPUS, at least my first foray into their sonic world are a trip to be taken often full of urgent sideways sounds full of whimsy.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://www.instagram.com/clocktopus/
https://clocktopus.bandcamp.com/track/world-worry-iii
https://www.facebook.com/clocktopusmusic
CLOCKTOPUS is a many-tentacled musical being. A bunch of musician friends who have all earned their spurs in the Netherlands, built a studio in the jungle of Thailand out of bamboo, covered with palm leaves. After a month of recording in the scorching heat, but also during hellish tropical storms, they returned with their suitcases full of music. in which you can sometimes still hear the jungle sounds in the background. From freaked-out space rock to dark folky ballads and from orchestral hip-hop blues to straight-up pop songs. Anything goes, really. But live on stage, song may take on an whole different life of their own. Adventure is the name of the Clocktopus game.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/clocktopus/
https://clocktopus.bandcamp.com/track/world-worry-iii
https://www.facebook.com/clocktopusmusic
CLOCKTOPUS is a many-tentacled musical being. A bunch of musician friends who have all earned their spurs in the Netherlands, built a studio in the jungle of Thailand out of bamboo, covered with palm leaves. After a month of recording in the scorching heat, but also during hellish tropical storms, they returned with their suitcases full of music. in which you can sometimes still hear the jungle sounds in the background. From freaked-out space rock to dark folky ballads and from orchestral hip-hop blues to straight-up pop songs. Anything goes, really. But live on stage, song may take on an whole different life of their own. Adventure is the name of the Clocktopus game.
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