Earlier this week, Russian dark dream pop group Motorama announced their forthcoming record Before The Road. Along with the news came their newest single “Today & Everyday,” follow-up to “The New Era” released earlier this year. Both singles feel comparably lighter and brighter than their past work, the new track expressing the importance of living life as it comes. Frontman Vladislav Parshin’s guitar dances and floats adjacent to his vocals, oddly hopeful and comforting, embedding within the narrative a series of dichotomies – he calls life both “divine and infernal,” insisting every “burden is a blessing” as it reminds us of the complexity of living; it can either be as simple as sitting in the sun by the river, holding your thoughts in like a weeping willow, or as seemingly bleak as being on Moscow’s sidewalks in the rain, suffocated by the residual petrichor. Life goes on in a “cruel, beautiful way,” Parshin insists, and when ensconced in the soft, radiating guitar and synth as radiant as a sunbeam, we’re inclined to believe him. Motorama, recently, seems as if it is pop for realists.
“Today & Everyday” is out now.
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