Coltrane Motion : The Year Without A Summer b/w Maya Blue 7"- I'm Waking Up To.. . March 4, 2009
For those not in the know, Coltrane Motion is the sound of Matt Dennewitz's 60's garage fuzz guitar storm and Michael Bond's powerhouse drum loops, synthesizer, and soaring organ riffs blended into a frenzied dance groove. Their new The Year Without A Summer single continues their string of excellent releases. The A-Side is a driving rocker punctuated by a dark, somewhat sinister sounding synth hook, while The B-Side, Maya Blue, slows it down a bit for a more rhythmic psychedelic feel. Get it now on super cool colored vinyl 7" and break in those new dancing shoes for when they hit your town.- Bag of Songs . March 4, 2009
Bands have been pillaging 60's pop music, from girl groups to The Beatles to Phil Spector, for decades, turning what could the most down right sunny tunes of the past 50 years into a provocative, avant-garde reinterpretation where feedback and noise all but drowned out the faintest structure of melody and themes brimming with sex, violence and drugs were standard. The Velvet Underground could probably be the most significant, and most likely first, example of this post-modern tendency in rock music, turning the jubilant and dense melodies of girl groups like the The Ronnettes and The Crystals into curiously harmonic walls of drone, complete with ironic lyrics about life in the city, heroin addiction, and transvestite hookers.- Speed of the Pittsburgh Sound . March 5, 2009
We've been big fans of the Datawaslost crew out of Cincinnati for nearly a decade now. They've kept a lower profile over the last few years, but Chicago-based conspirators Coltrane Motion have been keeping busy. Building off of last year's spastic lo-fi/psych gem, Songs About Music, they're dropping a superb 7", The Year Without a Summer, on March 24. While we totally fell for the hyperactive synth-laden A-side, the hypnotic drone of the B-side, "Maya Blue", kept this one on repeat...- The Buddha Den . March 5, 2009
Take Matt & Kim, mix in a little Silversun Pickups, then sprinkle a little 60's pysch on top, and voilá, you have yourself an awesome "electronic noise-pop duo", who's main goal seems to be to get you off your butt and dancing.- Stereo Cupcake . March 5, 2009
Chicago's Coltrane Motion plays the kind of electro-pop that doesn't sound like electro-pop. Sure there are synths, samples, and drum loops, but their songwriting pulls the duo out of the polished and cold feelings that often accompany computer-generated music..- Smile Politely . March 9, 2009
When singer/composer Michael Bond and guitarist Matt Dennewitz relocated from Cincinnati (where Bond helped helm the still-in-operations datawaslost collective/label) to Chicago a few years back, the Indie music world was just beginning to show more of a whole-hearted interest in danceable, electronic sounds. It was perfect timing for the admittedly more adventurous and noisy duo – perhaps best described as Indie Dance Punk — which has seen many of its releases fervently frothed over by the tastemakers of the music blogosphere. In fact, when the group's full-length, Songs About Music, came out in 2007, it was ranked alongside some of Indie's heaviest hitters as one of the most written-about new releases of its time. And the reviews were almost universally positive.- Almost Four Stars . September 22, 2009
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