"I am a headless man / creeping in through your basement walls..."
The dark sultry, savage, horror pop noir of "Headless" by Melbourne / Berlin based KINO MOTEL is a lot of things, an alt rock stroll into the unknown done with great panache. Extremely filmic it feels like the script was written in blood after a knife fight between David Lynch (circa Mulholland Drive) and Dario Argento (circa Suspiria). Sonically I feel an amalgam of artists like Bauhaus, The Drones, She Wants Revenge, Alien Sex Fiend. "Headless" wraps around you more tightly the more you listen and imagine the stories between the lines. It is the 2nd single from Kino Motel’s debut album "Visions" dropping on April 26th via Beast Records (EU) & Heart of the Rat Records (AU/NZ). I am soaking into "Headless" in a big way and loving Ed Fraser's sort of Gothic post punk drawl offset by Rosa Mercedes' 60's torchy 'teenage rebellion' noir sound. It is all so subversively delicious.
LINER NOTES (bracketed):
[Beach Goth duo Kino Motel created their 10-track debut album Visions (out April 26) between the band’s 2 homes: Melbourne and Berlin. Ed Fraser (Heads. / Cash Savage & The Last Drinks) and Rosa Mercedes (Josephine Foster Band) have created a unique and visionary album filled with space, mood, feeling and complexity.]
[Heavily inspired by the spaces in which they travel, with Visions we see music videos shot by the band in Albania, Northern Ireland, and Australia. Ed and Rosa convey feelings and ideas of shifting landscapes and open-ended roads - “like a movie in your head” as described by Radioeins Berlin's Marion Brasch.]
[Heavily inspired by the spaces in which they travel, with Visions we see music videos shot by the band in Albania, Northern Ireland, and Australia. Ed and Rosa convey feelings and ideas of shifting landscapes and open-ended roads - “like a movie in your head” as described by Radioeins Berlin's Marion Brasch.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/kino__motel/
https://www.facebook.com/kinomotelmusic/
After meeting in a commune in Berlin, Ed Fraser and Rosa Mercedes deserted together and hit the road. Following a grimy and particularly sweaty basement karaoke session somewhere in Vietnam in 2019, KINO MOTEL was created - named for the bar in which it was conceived, KINO MOTEL listeners can expect dusty melancholic gritty pop. Lots of oil and sand and road ahead. KINO MOTEL’s cinematic debut single Waves, and the accompanying Bangkok-based action video, were released in October 2020. The duo released their second single, Simple Desire, in January 2021, which was then featured as New and Notable on Bandcamp, before releasing the live mini-album and corresponding full band video Live and In-Person (live and in-person) in February, and their third single, Fingerprints, followed by an Australian tour in July 2021, and finally European tours in 2022 and 2023. The band are currently completing their debut album, and in the meantime Kino Motel's latest single Meet Here can be heard right here. “Like a movie your head, adventurous and sometimes dreamy. You can see landscapes... the dreams and wide blue sky are interrupted by strange themes. It is wonderful music.” - Marion Brasch, radioeins (Germany) "Pulsing pop from Kino Motel, 'Simple Desire' marries a drifting vocal hook to a pinprick guitar line and somnolent beats.” - Bandcamp (USA) “There’s an awesome sophistication and creativity to the mix and mash up of textures in this” - Triple J (Australia)
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