Motorists w/ Dead Animals & Long Meg

QU A RR Y is delighted to present an evening with Toronto's jangle-pop trio, Motorists. Support from local vagabonds Dead Animals & Long Meg. MORE INFO:

Driving is a huge part of rock and roll’s enduring mythology. Images of cruising down the
highway with friends and lovers while basking in the freedom of the open road pervade pop
music’s lyrical canon. Yet, so often, these idealized images clash with the everyday drudgery
of being a motorist: traffic jams, detours, and bad news on the radio.

This tension is central to Motorists’ debut LP, Surrounded—an album that is as much about
the colourful possibilities of life as it is about the way those possibilities are boxed in by
technologies. It’s clear that, for the band, creative collaboration is the only way to break the
tension. In a world where everyone’s been in their own bubble, Motorists have pushed theirs
together and worked through feelings of isolation as a group, to the tune of jangly guitars,
infectious power pop hooks, and a steady motorik beat. Recorded in their rehearsal space
before it was handed off for mastering by Australian punk hero Mikey Young (Eddy Current
Suppression Ring, Total Control) the result is an album full of revelations about what it
means to be together, and how bad you want it when you’re being torn apart.

£7 ADV // £10 OTD