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2017’s equal parts somnambulant and sultry Sleeprydr 7” was aptly described as “psychedelic rock that hits like a dream despite undoubtedly seeking to soundtrack nightmares” (-Stereogum). Thankfully, Slow Sundown, Holy Motors’ debut full length release, finds the Estonian dreamcatchers utilizing a similar sonic palette ranging from dark psychedelic pop to shoegaze-inflected western music. But while Sleeprydr, much like 2015’s Heavenly Creatures 7”, provided only a fleeting glimpse into the dreamscape that their music evokes, Slow Sundown’s eight tracks offer a more immersive experience for those brave enough to take the ride. While the guitar lines from lonely cowboy ballads like “Honeymooning” could easily serve as the central themes for unwritten Morriccone scores, dystopian anthems like the rhythmically propelled “Signs” break new ground for the band and demonstrate that Holy Motors are not bound by their influences. Thematically the album is comprised primarily of sad love songs centered around the idea of motion – the motion of a satellite orbiting a planet, the motion of a passenger riding shotgun in a car – as it relates to stellar-scale and existential isolation. Produced by Merchandise’s Carson Cox and recorded at Brooklyn’s Kutch1 Studios when the band was visiting the US on tourist visas, Slow Sundown is a beautiful alien artifact that definitively delivers on everything we have been promised by Holy Motors’ work to date.

About Holy Motors

Hailing from Estonia, Holy Motors is a five-piece twang and reverb band featuring three guitarists. They are cowboys at heart who come off as shoegazers by their presence and dreamcatchers in their music. In their time, Holy Motors have played alongside bands such as Kaleidoscope, Craft Spells, Sic Alps, Dirty Fences, and Rips. They will appear at South by Southwest in 2018 and are currently organizing a series of US tour dates centered around the festival.

STEREOGUM
Hits like a dream despite undoubtedly seeking to soundtrack nightmares
THE FADER
HOLY MOTORS makes shoegaze that sounds like the old west
ADHOC
Alluring in their delivery, entrapping in their substance

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Holy Motors - Honeymooning

Say You Love Me Too (feat. Clara Viñals)

Sleepwalking

Don't need no precious Valentine
Or hear you will be mine all mine
Just want to know you
And hear you're cheerless too

Don't need no precious Valentine
Or hear you will be mine all mine
Just want to know you
Are still lonely and blue

You're worthy of one just as wrong who is as dismal
When all is grey a disarray better the devil

Don't need no precious Valentine
Or hear you will be mine all mine
Just want to know you
Are still lonely and blue

You're worthy of one just as wrong who is as dismal
When all is grey a disarray better the devil
You're worthy of one just as wrong who is as dismal
When all is grey a disarray better the devil

La la la la la, la la la la
Oooooooo
La la la la la, la la la la
Oooooooo
Don't need a precious Valentine
Or hear you will be mine all mine

So sigh entwined with me dear
Lower ideals
I'm the runt you were born to live with
We'll struggle pitifully along together

You're worthy of one just as wrong who is as dismal
When all is grey a disarray better the devil
You're worthy of one just as wrong who is as dismal
When all is grey a disarray better the devil

Valentine

Jonathan Bree

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