Motorama are a Russian group and for my money, you don't hear enough from Russia. The country has actually got a pretty awesome history of psychedelic rock from the '70s with this tune from Yuri Morozov being a particularly sexy number with a bass line to jiggle ya bits along to. The '80s, as is so often the case in the so-called Eastern Block, was dubbed a Golden Age and Kino were pretty prolific. I annoy my girlfriend no end by nattering incessantly the choppy guitar line from this track. Other than that, Russian music for me boils down to Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which still has me scrambling for behind the sofa after being tormented by a sinister animation as a child. I can still see the scraggly wolf creeping through the twisted trees to those violins and the deep bass.
None of that here, however as Motorama create relaxing, slouch-inducing indie pop on their 7" single, Holy Day backed with Mirror. It's the kind of tune to soundtrack the end of a house party, crushed cans and fags all around, a bloke nobody knows asleep in the bath and the sun just melting through the curtains. It's just you and your proper mates by this point, collapsed on one another in a glorious, sweaty heap. Holy Day tingles along in lo-fi electronic fun and the vocals are indifferent, slurred, as if sleepy but still partying over the driving bass line. Grab ya mates, a bottle of something and let Motorama be the soundtrack to the 5:30am last dance.
Motorama
Holy Day/Mirror
Talitres
7" vinyl out: 8/07/2016 at Talitres
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