Island News & Views
General · 3rd September 2008
Editor
First, the details: MOTHER MOTHER's playing two concerts on Quadra this fall.
Thursday SEP 4: ALL AGES CONCERT, doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7:30. Special guest: Jasmin Parkin.
Friday SEP 5: LICENSED DANCE 19+, doors open at 9, show starts at 10. Special guests: Bonafide.
TICKETS are on sale at Book Bonanza on Quadra and The Music Plant in Campbell River, $12 in advance, $15 at the door.
Here's the band's official bio, subtitled Why You Should Get Your Tickets Now:
Mother Mother is definitely not a band to sit idle. The Vancouver based quintet are back with their sophomore album, O My Heart, set for release this fall on Last Gang Records (Metric, DFA 1979, The New Pornographers). O MY HEART shows all of the signs of a promising future. They placed producer Howard Redekopp (The New Pornographers, Tegan and Sara, 54.40) at the helm, and set their course. The result, an artistic and original expression of modern pop music that beautifully combines novelty and nostalgia, profundity and play, to create a musical landscape that will leave the listener spell bound and captivated.
Mother Mother’s use of rich vocal harmony, deeply poetic lyricism, and dynamic instrumentation are masterfully employed in this new collection of songs that mark the evolution and maturity of a band that stands out in today’s music scene – a band with staying power, and one that pushes the bounds of contemporary pop/rock sensibilities.
MOTHER MOTHER’s debut cd, TOUCH UP was a sleeper album that grabbed the attention of all the right people. “4 Stars” - The Globe and Mail. “An album isolated from a lot of today's worn-out trends and aesthetic mimicry" said Pitchfork Media. Cheeky Celebrity super-blogger, Perez Hilton distinguished Mother Mother to be “the most exciting band coming out of Canada” and Chart Attack remarked that “listening to Mother Mother is like reading Hunter S. Thompson – you end up in a place where reality has been delightfully skewed”, an apt comparison, given the band’s eccentric style – both lyrically and musically.
Thursday SEP 4: ALL AGES CONCERT, doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7:30. Special guest: Jasmin Parkin.
Friday SEP 5: LICENSED DANCE 19+, doors open at 9, show starts at 10. Special guests: Bonafide.
TICKETS are on sale at Book Bonanza on Quadra and The Music Plant in Campbell River, $12 in advance, $15 at the door.
Here's the band's official bio, subtitled Why You Should Get Your Tickets Now:
Mother Mother is definitely not a band to sit idle. The Vancouver based quintet are back with their sophomore album, O My Heart, set for release this fall on Last Gang Records (Metric, DFA 1979, The New Pornographers). O MY HEART shows all of the signs of a promising future. They placed producer Howard Redekopp (The New Pornographers, Tegan and Sara, 54.40) at the helm, and set their course. The result, an artistic and original expression of modern pop music that beautifully combines novelty and nostalgia, profundity and play, to create a musical landscape that will leave the listener spell bound and captivated.
Mother Mother’s use of rich vocal harmony, deeply poetic lyricism, and dynamic instrumentation are masterfully employed in this new collection of songs that mark the evolution and maturity of a band that stands out in today’s music scene – a band with staying power, and one that pushes the bounds of contemporary pop/rock sensibilities.
MOTHER MOTHER’s debut cd, TOUCH UP was a sleeper album that grabbed the attention of all the right people. “4 Stars” - The Globe and Mail. “An album isolated from a lot of today's worn-out trends and aesthetic mimicry" said Pitchfork Media. Cheeky Celebrity super-blogger, Perez Hilton distinguished Mother Mother to be “the most exciting band coming out of Canada” and Chart Attack remarked that “listening to Mother Mother is like reading Hunter S. Thompson – you end up in a place where reality has been delightfully skewed”, an apt comparison, given the band’s eccentric style – both lyrically and musically.
