Television features, named ‘Artist of the Month’ and supported by BBC Music Introducing, Motorcycle Display Team are back. The band have previously seen widespread press acclaim and built a reputation for heart-wrenching narratives. Their recent arrangement expansion from original power trio Morgon Condon, Brad Larroquette and Stevoknievo to rich strings and backing vocals has seen the band turn a new leaf and reinvent their sound.
Unveiled alongside ‘To The Endless’ as the other half to two-track Heartbeaten, Motorcycle Display Team has shared ‘Not Raving, But Frowning’. The band bring a narrative of disillusionment and introspection, searching for meaning in their words and grappling with broader existential questions.
This narrative is supported by a vast and intricate arrangement, a journey across the plain upon which the thoughts arrive, and the tone of different instruments emerging as new thoughts, or new avenues to the melodic progress. At the beginning, the drums and guitar contrast the vocalisations, by the end the strings are aligned with the vocals, though whether this arrangement change is acceptance or improvement the audience is never sure.
Stevoknievo explains the new track, “The song is a portrait of the self-indulgent fool I recognise in myself. Where all play every day makes Jack a burned-out husk. A romantic cliche never accepting when the party's over. A meaningless existence, piecing together hazy recollections of nights before. But even so it’s not hopeless – there’s always the glimmer of a chance at redemption.”
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