A few new reviews are up for Motion Turns It On‘s new album, Kaleidoscopic Equinox (out Feb 16 via Chocolate Lab Records).
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The Silent Ballet gives an 8/10!
As everything speeds by, painting a blurred and shifting stained glass of keyboard solos and guitar wails, our train changes velocities in loud thumping rhythms of prog-tastic elegance and precision, leading our ears into tense freak-outs as easily as it crosses noise-powered electronic bridges into sweet melodies and meditative space-rock freedom. -continue reading
The Decibel Tolls
The typical snakey guitar lines you’d hear in, say, Don Caballero is replaced with insane fuzz and sci-fi sounds reminiscent of Raymond Scott. Motion Turns It On is some of the finest tape echo-heavy ADHD garage prog I’ve heard since Hella. -continue reading
29-95
More than a great post-rock record, Kaleidoscopic Equinox is a way forward for the genre: out of the lonely, plodding, echo-filled doldrums, into the neon frenzy of the urban night. -continue reading
[sic] Magazine
This album is akin to the bastard offspring of Mothers Of Invention-era Zappa and Daevid Allen-era Gong, with some of the more bizarre qualities of Mahavishnu heaped on top of the sensibilities of dance-proggers Ozric Tentacles and with a curt nod in the direction of those kings of organised chaos, Broken Social Scene. -continue reading
Redefine Magazine
Bizarre math rock drumming beats from Steve Smith and time signature changes are the keys here. The guitars echo The Mars Volta’s initial days, spastic and in your face. But not in such a way that is ultimately uncomfortable or condescending. Vocalists Andres Londono and William Kenny use their vocal chords as just another realm to the madness, layering distorted and non-intelligible lyrics all over. -continue reading
