Motorpsycho

Kingdom Of Oblivion

RUNE GRAMMOFON Cult Swedish psych-heads set the dials to ‘rocking’.

Thirty years into their career, Motorpsycho remain an enigma in plain sight. The fact that Kingdom Of Oblivion might be their 25th, 26th or 27th studio album depending on what measure you use, indicates how sprawling and amorphous their universe is.

Musically it finds them playing it as straight as they’re capable of, channelling their protean sound into a comparatively direct hard-rock assault on the riff-fuelled title track and The Warning (Pts 1 And 2). Of course, ‘direct’ is a relative concept in the world of Motorpsycho, especially on a double album that runs close to 70 minutes. It’s impossible not to see the lysergic tracer lines surrounding the steamrolling The United Debased, while a watery cover of Hawkwind’s The Watcher indicates where their heads are forever at. The cumulative result is an album accessible enough to provide an entry point for the curious, while having just the right amount of wiggy to satisfy paid-up members of the Motorpsycho cult. ■■■■■■■■■■