Unknown Motives' second album 'Running Again' expands on the groundwork established in 'Lag', exploring themes of anxiety and obsession through the lens of bombastic, 80's inspired rock music, paired with spacious synths, robotic drum machines and electronica influence.

My Fault

Turning Around

Vulcan

Full Circle

Surround Yourself

Warmer began as a rejection of the digital, focussing on choral repeating layers as a mood meditation, before reintroducing the robotic half-live, half-programmed grooves that are stylistic of the Unknown Motives project. Warmer introduces the third Unknown Motives album, "Absorbed!" and begins the slow rise of the album's crescendo, from a vastly different place to where Unknown Motives has ever tread before. Spacious, pensive, morphing, a sudden realisation, warmer, warmer, warmer every day.

Backing Vocals by Tess Douglass
Bass by Marley Dalton
Writing, Mixing, all other sounds by Jordan Palamara
Mastered by James McKenna

Warmer

Moving Forward is an Electronic Rock stomper seeping with dissociative synths and circling guitars. When what's left is less than you expected and all realisations have already been made, all you can do move forward and hope that you don't get sucked in by the hands reaching out of the ground.

Backing Vocals by Tess Douglass
Bass by Marley Dalton
Writing, Mixing, all other sounds by Jordan Palamara
Mastered by James McKenna

Moving Forward

The Rumbles are the bubbling over you feel before the close. 

Backing Vocals by Tess Douglass
Bass by Marley Dalton
Writing, Mixing, all other sounds by Jordan Palamara
Mastered by James McKenna

The Rumbles

Pause

It’s my birthday! And this year my birthday present to myself is that I get to share ‘Absorbed!’.

2024 was a really tough year for me, but knowing that this album came of it makes it astronomically better. I’ve never been so proud of a work I’ve created, and enjoyed it so thoroughly still after its completion. This is my 10th album, 7th released publicly. I think this is the best one, by far.

So excited to share it with you.

Thanks so much to Tess Douglas for the gorgeous backing vocals (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6), Marley Dalton for the crazy bass tracking (tracks 1, 3), Danny for constantly encouraging me through the unknown, George Johnson for the hot as fuck promo shots that have been all over Instagram, and this cool as hell album art, and James McKenna for the world ending mastering of the album.

Unknown Motives is a Melbourne based, twitch inspired experimental, industrial, electronic rock band.

Moving Forward

Unknown Motives

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