‘Webbed Feet’ by Mother Sun | New Album, ‘Train of Thought’
Today, Canadian psych quartet Mother Sun announce a brand new LP entitled ‘Train of Thought’, due October 28 via Earth Libraries, as well as the band’s own small label, Kamloops BC-based Divine Bovine Records. To celebrate and kick off the album cycle, they have also shared the record’s first single, ‘Webbed Feet’, which comes alongside an accompanying music video.
“Posing a question, falling asleep/ Glued to a fish eye, blind in the ocean/ Water resistance, growing webbed feet,” Doherty sings on their new track as a pulse of retro soundtrack horns and bombast drums propel his bleary-eyed vocals into an endless psychedelic expanse.
That track’s blend of riotous complexity and souped up devolution digs at the thesis of the album as it teeters at the edge. “It’s all about the way our thoughts control us and we control them”, Doherty says. “Being anxious about mind control, noticing your surroundings, caring for your mental health, being mindful of others, and not letting your train of thought run away due to complacency”.
‘Train of Thought’, the third full length release by Kamloops, British Columbia based psych quartet Mother Sun is a 12 song day trip through an overstimulated frame of mind. Using 60’s and 70’s psych pop, garage rock, jazz and soul as a jumping off point, the band refines their modern eclectic storytelling through lush and adventurous arrangements, highlighted by abstract hooks, velvety strings and triumphant horns.
The record was recorded primarily live off the floor at Little Red Sounds Studio in Vancouver BC by producer Felix Fung. On the record, Mother Sun teamed up with a variety of musicians from their hometown of Kamloops BC, notably a string quartet from the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra. Horn arrangements written by two members of the band were performed by Vancouver based musicians Anita Eccleston and Mike WT Allen.
As the album cruises forward, Mother Sun drop little technicolor billboards along the path in the form of extended psychedelic outros and parenthetical interludes. These brief moments let the listener unpack the mental and psychological depths of tracks like ‘Memory Banker’, in which Doherty unravels the very idea of objectivity: “Memory banker/ My memory’s blank/ File corrupted/ Now my memory’s fucked”. And when ‘Train of Thought’ eases into its final station, it’s with the new understanding that the universe around is being built and unbuilt at all times. “All thoughts shift or gain a new edge and perspective from day to day, and the album will live and grow through that process”, Doherty says.
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