Pottery – Texas Drums Pt I & II (Music Video)
Montreal psych-alt-rock 5-piece Pottery have shared a quirky first look into their upcoming debut full-length Welcome to Bobby’s Motel, out April 10th on Royal Mountain Records and Partisan.
Lead by the two-part, Jenga-tower of a single “Texas Drums”, the band’s infectious and groovy, dance-rock sound carefully balances obscurity and trance-inducing rhythm, while making it nearly impossible to not move along to the music. Things get equally unpredictable with the music video for “Drums Pt. I”, as two pale, unibrowed men travel through a weird dreamworld. If the rest of the album is anything similar to the lead single, things are going to get interesting.
And who is this “Bobby”, you may ask?
Well, the band explains it all in this press release:
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. They’ve 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 isn’t worth it to Bobby. There’s a piece of him in everyone, there to remind us that things are probably going to work out, maybe. He’s you. He’s him. He’s her. He’s 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 that’s okay, because you don’t go to Bobby’s Motel for the glamour and a good night’s sleep, the minibar, or the full-service sauna. You go to Bobby’s 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 Bobby’s Motel and just when you think you will never find it, you realize you’ve been there all along. It’s filthy and amazing and you dance, and you love it.
Enjoy the filthy dancing by watching the music video for Pt. I below here, and continue down for the full single and a complete list of tour dates. Head to their website for more music, to pre-order a copy of Welcome to Bobby’s Motel, and to get tickets.
Listen to the full 2-part track below:
Tour Dates
22 Feb – Stockholm, SE – Obaren
23 Feb – Copenhagen, DK – Ideal Bar
24 Feb – Malmo, SE – Plan B
26 Feb – London, UK – Windmill Brixton *SOLD OUT*
28 + 29 Feb – Oslo, NO – by:Larm Festival
30 April – Toronto, ON – The Garrison
2 May – Burlington, VT – Waking Windows
4 May – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
5 May – Washington, DC – Songbyrd
7 May – New York, NY – The Dance
8 May – Boston, MA – Great Scott
9 May – Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa
22 May – Antwerp, BE – Trix Bar
23 May – Hamburg, DE – Nochtspeicher
24 May – Berlin, DE – Berghain Kantine
25 May – Prague, CZ – Underdogs
26 May – Vienna, AT – B72
28 May – Basel, CH – Sommercasino (Czar Fest)
29 May – Milan, IT – Ohibo Club
30 May – Fucecchio, IT – Beat Festival, Limonaia
2 June – Madrid, ES – Wurlitzer Ballroom
4 June – Pau, FR – Le Pingouin Alternatif
6 June – Lyon, FR – Le Sonic
8 June – Brighton, UK – Chalk
9 June – Manchester, UK – Yes
10 June – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
11 June – London, UK – The Dome Tufnell Park
12-14 June – Hilvarenbeek, NL – Best Kept Secret
31 July-August 2 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga
