Portland’s MØTRIK are “America’s Best Krautrock Band,” channeling the genre’s driving pulse through a kaleidoscope prism of cosmic textures, hypnotic rhythms, and alien clarity.
On EARTH, the band’s fourth full-length album, Møtrik takes us on a sprawling, celestial journey through the outer limits of krautrock. The album’s 9 songs chart a course through sonic paradox; between body and void, machine and soul, end and beginning. And the results are undeniable: EARTH is a modern krautrock masterwork, and the soundtrack to our strange, unraveling future.
EARTH cements their status not as revivalists, but as genre-shapers in their own right, equal parts sci-fi ritual, motorik propulsion, and kosmiche pastiche. Fans of Dry Cleaning, Minami Deutsch, or early Kraftwerk may recognize some of the terrain, but lead single “Ultimate Drive” is distinctly Møtrik: a cosmic death-drive wrapped in analog pulse, alien cool, and post-human longing.
Over the last decade, Møtrik — Erik Golts (bass/vocals/synthesizers), Cord Amato (guitar, synthesizer), Lee Ritter (drums), Jonah Nolde (guitar, synthesizers), and Dave Fulton (synthesizers/sequencers) — has earned its headliner status at home and around the US. They have shared the stage with artists as diverse as Thee Oh Sees, Drive By Truckers, Träd Gräs Och Stenar, L’Eclair, Cloud Nothings and Once and Future Band.
