photo by naomi peters
The massively gnarly, savage guitar swells and kamikaze drop ins of "Kyle Hangs Ten" by Canadian genre -hopping alt indie trio Motherhood, and the ying follow up to the "Kyle Hangs at Noon" yang from their 2025 full length "Thunder Perfect Mind", is something to behold, grab a hold of and lovingly dissect in your mind. The guitar moves supported by killer drumming and bass is so deliciously rich and crunchy and while it's squashed blend of noise rock, alt rock, psych rock, punk surf rock is so richly textured, the kind of doo wop girl group late 70's punk aesthetic vox give it a kind of artful art punk haunted edge too. I am feeling this gorgeous attitudinal iconic amalgam of Ennio Morricone (1966), Thee Oh Sees (2006), Dick Dale (1962), Black Sabbath (1970) and Deborah Harry (1977). I am loving all the scenery chewing musicality courtesy of Brydon Crain (guitar), Penelope Stevens (bass, keys) and Adam Sipkema (drums) and while the song is over 4 minutes long, it fucking flies by. In fact, I would say the only thing wrong with "Kyle Hangs Ten" is that it is too short. I can only imagine a longer jam at live shows (how amazing would that be?).
-Robb Donker Curtius
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[“Usually by the time we release a song, the original influences have been hidden under layers of subterfuge, with our attraction to play far outweighing our ability to stay put. With 'Kyle Hangs Ten,' we were trying to write the most surfy song we could without over-complicating a genre that, at it’s core, is just swaggy country music" explains the band. "Adam had a drum beat that we jammed over, eventually falling into a Miserlou-adjacent guitar melody and filling the rest with pastiches."
When Motherhood were preparing to record their 2025 LP, Thunder Perfect Mind, they couldn’t agree on the proper tempo for the song, until Kyle Cunjak (co-producer of the album) suggested both speeding it up AND slowing it down, creating 2 songs with the same bones.
"In the end, the slow version (the spaghetti western 'Kyle Hangs at Noon') made the record and the fast version ('Kyle Hangs Ten') didn’t," explains the band, "but we still love the song. Kyle promised us he’d be able to hang 10 by the time this song comes out. If not, he hangs at noon.”
TOUR DATES:
April 17 - Saint John, NB: Callie's Pub // tickets
April 18 - Fredericton, NB: The Cap // tickets
May 2 - Portland, ME: Live at Madrid's // tickets
May 14/15 - Paris, FR: Supersonic's Block Party // tickets
May 16 - Strasbourg, FR: Pelpass Festival // tickets
May 18 - Skofja Loka, SI: AKC Nama
May 19 - Budapest, HU: Szimpla Kert // FREE
May 20 - Pilsen, CZ: Mistni Borci
May 21 - Hamburg, DE: Deichdiele
May 22 - Frankfurt, DE: Dreikönigskeller
May 23 - The Hague, NL: Sniester // tickets
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4SnpEoCpqpmL3axTRi3C7D
https://motherhoodmusic.bandcamp.com/track/kyle-hangs-ten
https://www.instagram.com/mightymightymums/
https://motherhood.website/
https://twitter.com/motherhoodmusic
Playful as a puppy but smart as a whip, New Brunswick, Canada’s MOTHERHOOD has a knack for packing deeply conceptual art rock into a delightfully unpretentious package. Oft-described as “evil Beach Boys”, the trio blends the ferocity of punk, the finesse of surf, and the raw energy of garage into something as complex as it is endearing.
Brydon Crain (guitar, vocals), Penelope Stevens (bass, keys, vocals) and Adam Sipkema (drums) have been linking arms and running into rock n’ roll oblivion repeatedly for the past eight years. Like cowpunk without the jadedness, dust rock without the drymouth; a thinkin’ people’s union for the fearless.
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