Moody_Motorcycle

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Moody Motorcycle

2008 studio album by Human Highway

Moody Motorcycle is an album by Human Highway. It was mastered by Fedge. The album's photography was done by Jaime Hogge. It was released on CD as well as root-beer brown Vinyl.[1]

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The album contains recordings of songs created by singer-songwriter Jim Guthrie and Nicholas Thorburn, backed up by Evan Gordon, Geordie Gordon and Aaron Harris from the band Islands. The album was recorded at Guthrie's apartment in one week.[2] Patrice Agbokou played bass on the song "My Beach".

Track listing

  1. "The Sound" – 2:44 (music: Guthrie/Thorburn, lyrics Guthrie, Thorburn)
  2. "All Day" – 3:32 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)
  3. "Get Lost" – 3:52 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
  4. "What World" – 3:33 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)
  5. "Sleep Talking" – 3:34 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
  6. "Moody Motorcycle" – 3:11 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)
  7. "My Beach" – 2:55 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
  8. "Ode to Abner" – 1:59 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
  9. "Pretty Hair" – 3:46 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
  10. "Vision Failing" – 3:16 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
  11. "Duties of a Lighthouse Keeper (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)" – 3:51
  12. "I Wish I Knew" (music/lyrics: Dallas, Taylor) – 3:04

Reception

Slant magazine describes the album as "breezy harmonies" with "acoustic balladeering".[3] while Pop Matters praised the album's pop-influenced catchy melodies.[4] The album was also reviewed by Tiny Mixtapes,[5] Toronto Star[6] and the North Adams Transcript[7] The reviews were generally fairly positive.

References

  1. [1]
    " Human Highway Moody Motorcycle". AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder
  2. [2]
    "Jim Guthrie Reunites With Islands' Nick Thorburn On Human Highway"[usurped], chartattack.com, April 9, 2008.
  3. [3]
    "Human Highway Moody Motorcycle" Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine. Wilson McBee, Slant, August 27, 2008
  4. [4]
    "Human Highway Moody Motorcycle". Pop Matters, Matthew Fiander, 9 September 2008
  5. [5]
    Tiny Mix Tapes review Archived 2009-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
  6. [6]
    "Pick of the Week Human Highway" Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Rayner, Ben, Aug 19, 2008 Page L.10
  7. [7]
    "The Music Box". North Adams Transcript via Newspaper Archives. September 26, 2008 - Page 12
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