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Going For The One

“After the American presidential election, it really hit home how fragile this world is. Two of us have now turned 50. We’re grown up, we have children, we care a bit more than we used to about the world. So this is our third album about this.”

In 2019, Trondheim’s hairiest experimental rockers Motorpsycho were on a roll. That February they released the second part of a trilogy, The Crucible, a three-tracker that followed 2017’s The Tower. They’d recorded three new records, worked on various production projects, set up tour dates. But, come spring this year, everything changed.

“We had big plans that went on hold,” says bassist-vocalist Bent Sather, on the phone to Prog during a heatwave in Trondheim. “No touring. No income. The same for us as everyone else.”

Sather is remarkably relaxed

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