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Cat No: PTKF2180-3
A1 Welcome To Bobby’s Motel
A2 Hot Heater
A3 Under the Wires
A4 Bobby’s Forecast
A5 Down in the Dumps
A6 Reflection
B1 Texas Drums Pt I & II
B2 NY Inn
B3 What’s in Fashion?
B4 Take Your Time
B5 Hot Like Jungle
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The debut album from Pottery, Welcome to Bobby’s Motel, arrives 10th April 2020.
Who is Bobby, you ask?
Enter Pottery. Enter Paul Jacobs, Jacob Shepansky, Austin Boylan, Tom Gould, and Peter Baylis. Enter the smells, the cigarettes, the noise, their van Mary, their friend Luke, toilet drawings, Northern California, Beatles accents, Taco Bell, the Great Plains, and hot dogs. Enter love and hate, angst and happiness, and everything in between. Beginning as an inside joke between the band members, Bobby and his motel have grown into so much more. Theyve become the all-encompassing alt-reality that the band built themselves, for everyone else. So, in essence, Bobby is Pottery and his motel is wherever they are.
But really, Bobby is a pilot, a lumberjack, a stay at home dad, and a disco dancer that never rips his pants. He’s a punching bag filled with comic relief. He laughs in the face of day-to-day ambiguity, as worrying isnt worth it to Bobby. Theres a piece of him in everyone, there to remind us that things are probably going to work out, maybe. Hes you. Hes him. Hes her. Hes them. Bobby is always there, painted in the corner, urging you to relax and forget about your useless worries. And his motel? Well, the motel is life. It might not be clean, and the curtains might not shut all the way. The air conditioner might be broken, and the floors might be stained. But thats okay, because you dont go to Bobbys Motel for the glamour and a good nights sleep, the minibar, or the full-service sauna. You go to Bobbys Motel to feel, to escape, to remember, to distract. You go for the late nights and early mornings, good times and the bad. You might spend your entire life looking for Bobbys Motel and just when you think you will never find it, you realize youve been there all along. Its filthy and amazing and you dance, and you love it.
The 11 songs on Welcome to Bobbys Motel dont just invite you to move your body; they command you to. Fusing reckless, manic energy with painstaking precision, the record is part post-punk, part art-pop, and part dance floor acid trip, hinting at everything from Devo to Gang of Four as it boldly careens through genres and decades. The music is driven by explosive drums and off-kilter guitar riffs that drill themselves into your brain, accented with deep, funky grooves and rousing gang vocals. The production is similarly raw and wild, suggesting an air of anarchy that belies the musics careful architecture and meticulous construction. The result is an album full of ambitious, complex performances that exude joy and mayhem in equal measure, a collection thats alternately virtuosic, chaotic, and pure fun.”
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