Category: Mothertapes

Eleven Magazine premieres new Mothertapes video for "Gravity Wins"

3/19/2016

"The album’s closer notwithstanding, “Gravity Wins” offers the deepest trance on Mothertapes’ debut record. And in this particular synthetic audio nest of Portland duo Pete Bosack and Tommy Franzen, there’s sensuality, nostalgia and, on the back of a trickling mid-song bassline, an influx of sadness. Even if, for era, the technology-voiced jam doesn’t match the video’s (tastefully edited) ’70s pornography, it’s suitably alien.

Director Jonathan Fine builds toward trysts in the song’s first half before the old, over-exposed film unwinds and rewinds in collage, as the song’s electronics and instrumentation eventually flood over themselves. Even with the cutting and re-editing of the historically distasteful, the direction is thoughtful in its obscurity." - Eleven Magazine

http://elevenpdx.com/new-music/premiere/video-premiere-gravity-wins-mothertapes

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Dual record release show with Yardsss, C^VES & Mothertapes in Portland

2/17/2016

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A dual record release show in Portland, OR for Yardsss 'Granfalloons' EP and C^VES 'Bleeding Rainbow' along with fellow label-mates Mothertapes.

Thursday, February 19th 2016
Self Group & Eleven Magazine Present
A dual Self Group record release show featuring
Yardsss (Granfalloons EP release)
Mothertapes
C^VES (Bleeding Rainbow album release)
@ Bunk Bar (Water Ave, Portland)
9:00 PM doors, 9:30 PM show
$6 advance, $6 day of show
21+

Advance tickets via Mercury Ticketing HERE

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Mothertapes - Western US Tour Jan/Feb 2016

1/31/2016

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Mothertapes (Self Group, Portland OR) hit the road in support of their self-titled debut album throughout the western US in January and February, see below for dates! Feel free to post photos from the shows, comments or just a hello in the comments section of this, we love updates from the road!

1/31 - San Francisco, CA - Amnesia
2/1 - Los Angeles, CA - The Satellite
2/3 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar
2/4 - Tucson, AZ - Sky Bar
2/5 - Santa Fe, NM - Iconik
2/6 - Albuquerque, NM - TBA
2/7 - Amarillo, TX - The 806
2/8 - El Prado, NM - Taos Mesa Brewing
2/9 - Denver, CO - Lion's Lair
2/10 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro
2/18 - Portland, OR - Bunk Bar

www.selfgroup.org/mothertapes.html
www.facebook.com/mothertapes
www.twitter.com/mothertapesband

Astute listeners will notice the influence of artists as varied as Animal Collective, Radiohead, Matmos, St. Vincent, Battles, and Maps and Atlases. But such comparisons serve only as reference points for this thoroughly original duo. After ten years of collaboration, Bosack and Franzen regard Mothertapes as the culmination of their work together, a breakthrough project resulting in forward-looking music that is both artistically ambitious and highly accessible.

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Paste and Eleven PDX rave about the debut Mothertapes album

10/21/2015

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Paste Magazine and Eleven PDX Magazine have both printed rave reviews of the debut Mothertapes s/t album. Woah. We are humbled though in full agreement.

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popmatters preimeres first single from mothertapes' debut album!

8/14/2015

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The first single from the forthcoming Mothertapes debut album, "Do Make Say", is live via PopMatters! Stream the track at your leisure. at the PM site.

www.popmatters.com/post/196433-mothertapes-do-make-say-audio-premiere.

"When Portland band Wax Fingers disintegrated, bandmates and longtime collaborators Pete Bosack and Tommy Franzen formed Mothertapes, a project that strives to marry progressive rock, electronic, and pop in the tradition of Tears For Fears, Battles, and Animal Collective.

Their self-titled debut album is slated for release this fall, but in the meantime they’ve just put out a terrific new single in “Do Make Say”, in which you can hear just how well the pair palaces the experimental and the accessible. For all the risks the song takes, from its washes of chillwave synths and huge, almost dubstep bassline, everything serves the melody which is sumptuous and gently catchy." - PopMatters

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Stream "Carrot Stick" by Mothertapes

5/4/2015

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You can now stream Carrot Stick, a 2014 single from the experimental duo. You can follow them via Soundcloud for new uploads here. // Artist Page

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Eleven Magazine premieres new Mothertapes video for "Gravity Wins"

Dual record release show with Yardsss, C^VES & Mothertapes in Portland

Mothertapes - Western US Tour Jan/Feb 2016

Paste and Eleven PDX rave about the debut Mothertapes album

popmatters preimeres first single from mothertapes' debut album!

Stream "Carrot Stick" by Mothertapes

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