Alien Snatch! Records
Mojomatics - Songs for Faraway Lovers – New LP
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$ 19.00
I like Rock n Roll, I love it & I love when something comes along that really makes my ears stand up & captures my attention.
I am still trying to get over that these two guys come from Italy because the sound is straight out of the south hanging out of a train.
Duos are in, Harmonica, banjo & Gretsch rattling along it’s almost like these guys said “Let’s make a Rock n Roll record that sounds like a Rock n Roll record ”. There will be records that the “machine” tells you, you should buy! This is a record your ears tell you “ you Should Buy ”! This just might be the classiest slab of vinyl you’ve heard in a long time, glassy recording & classy Rock n Roll. Feeling down in the dumps? This will pep you up. This should be in everyone’s collection, this is fun, Italy’s best kept secret. -- James Dixon *****
".. MOJOMATICS new album the world stands still for a second, irritated by a rockn´roll star shining brighter than usually in the sky. The crusade started from the lovely alleyways of Venice. MojoMatt (guitar, vocs) and DavMatic (drums, percussion) are rollin´ on a wave of enthusiasm which can´t be found a second time down there.
We´ve seen no other band beeing so much on the road playing tons of exciting shows all over Europe and winning the hearts of their audience. They are young, smart, joyful, have style and they know the trick and have the obsession to write songs which are timless classics and would excite, no matter in what time they live. The MOJOMATICS are here to entertain and live their dream, and are ready to fulfill asprirations given by the definition of rocknroll. „Songs For Faraway Lovers” is their second full length after various 45s and their highly acclaimed debut album “A Sweet Mama Gonna Hoodoo Me”.They took their whole songbook and entered recording sessions in the Adria lagoons, windy mountains and dusty basements to complete an impressive self-produced new album. Defined as blues encrusted punk tunes with a lot of rootsy pop harmonies and rambling´country-esque edges the MOJOMATICS pour out even more hooks on their second record and reveal their folk and blues roots with some typical american folky ballads. In every moment you got shaken by their agitated melancholia, in the next you feel the unrestless fresh fun they create out of their half century old influences. The pop sensibility on their walking blues trip thru the Mississippi Delta's paths is a shelter from the storm of mindless puppets. They prove that nice guys who love what they do win in this hype-ridden world. The prize? Beeing on the road, seeing ordinary garage rock and roll hustlers stomp their feet, suicide girls dancing, and musicologists and other high-art connoisseur take their hats off..."
We´ve seen no other band beeing so much on the road playing tons of exciting shows all over Europe and winning the hearts of their audience. They are young, smart, joyful, have style and they know the trick and have the obsession to write songs which are timless classics and would excite, no matter in what time they live. The MOJOMATICS are here to entertain and live their dream, and are ready to fulfill asprirations given by the definition of rocknroll. „Songs For Faraway Lovers” is their second full length after various 45s and their highly acclaimed debut album “A Sweet Mama Gonna Hoodoo Me”.They took their whole songbook and entered recording sessions in the Adria lagoons, windy mountains and dusty basements to complete an impressive self-produced new album. Defined as blues encrusted punk tunes with a lot of rootsy pop harmonies and rambling´country-esque edges the MOJOMATICS pour out even more hooks on their second record and reveal their folk and blues roots with some typical american folky ballads. In every moment you got shaken by their agitated melancholia, in the next you feel the unrestless fresh fun they create out of their half century old influences. The pop sensibility on their walking blues trip thru the Mississippi Delta's paths is a shelter from the storm of mindless puppets. They prove that nice guys who love what they do win in this hype-ridden world. The prize? Beeing on the road, seeing ordinary garage rock and roll hustlers stomp their feet, suicide girls dancing, and musicologists and other high-art connoisseur take their hats off..."
BMO (USA)
I can't think of any band, other than The Band, who has ever more clearly drawn the connection between old-timey, southern American folk music and raw, roadhouse/garage rock and roll. The really remarkable thing is that The Mojomatics have done this from the ancient city of Venice, Italy. Perhaps the Venice canal water contains some of the same stuff as the Mississippi delta. Or maybe Mojomatt and Davematic are just incredibly talented musicians with an intuitive understanding of swampy Country music. Either way, "Songs For Faraway Lovers" follows up right where last year's "A Sweet Mama Gonna Hoodoo Me", and even surpasses that album's brilliance in many ways. Where "...Hoodoo..." was more bluesy, "...Faraway..." is a bit more country, but that's hardly relevant. The point is that Mojomatics write great songs, and choose tasty covers, and then perform them with reckless abandon and fiery passion. If you like real country, blues, folk, garage, roadhouse music, and if you like to dance in your underwear while your stereo blasts at ear-puncturing volume, "Songs For Faraway Lovers" is as good as it gets. Record of the year! (BM)
MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL (USA)
Two tunes in and i'm hooked, could almost rival THE REIGNING SOUND in songwriting brillance. Injecting some infectious '60s whiteboy R' n ' B such as THE PRETTY THINGS, with the tambourine folk of, let's say, MOUSE AND THE TRAPS, with some raucous Delta blues an Atlantic soul. Christ, these boys can write them, play them, and sing them---retro without being, um, retro, folk without being cheesy, and soul without being another one of those soul/punk outfits. All brought together by their understanding of how to write a simple but great pop tune. Damn best record I've heard in a long long time!
MUSIC REVIEWER (USA)
Once in a while I’ll hit on a band that I might have missed the first time around, a band that knocks me on my butt and makes me run out and pick up their back catalogue. Spoon did that, so did The Unlovables, and now The Mojomatics had done the same. SONGS FOR FARAWAY LOVERS follows the duo’s debut full length CD, A SWEET MAMA GONNA HOODOO ME, and a bunch of singles. FARAWAY LOVERS is just great, 12 tracks full of British white boy blues, circa mid- to late-1960s. If you just sit back and let it play if sounds like a lost volume of British NUGGETS, with "Why Don’t You Leave Me" sounding like Them, "Leave This Town" and I’ll Be Home like The Kinks, "Right Or Wrong like early Yardbirds, and a whole bunch of tracks favoring the Rolling Stones from their beginning up through EXILE ON MAIN STREET, if they had drowned Mick Jagger instead of Brian Jones in the pool. "Stealin’ Stealin’" and "Hard Travelin’" are traditional blues numbers, though obscure, and the rest are original compositions by MojoMatt and DavMatic, but you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference. Rough and lo fi, but beautifully done, SONGS FOR RUNAWAY LOVERS couldn’t be better if it came out of your grandfather’s attic. SONGS FOR FARAWAY LOVERS isn’t an attempt to recapture an era; they actually somehow, someway, become one with the British rock scene of the mid-1960s. I can’t give any higher praise than that. Don’t miss this one. (9/10)
I can't think of any band, other than The Band, who has ever more clearly drawn the connection between old-timey, southern American folk music and raw, roadhouse/garage rock and roll. The really remarkable thing is that The Mojomatics have done this from the ancient city of Venice, Italy. Perhaps the Venice canal water contains some of the same stuff as the Mississippi delta. Or maybe Mojomatt and Davematic are just incredibly talented musicians with an intuitive understanding of swampy Country music. Either way, "Songs For Faraway Lovers" follows up right where last year's "A Sweet Mama Gonna Hoodoo Me", and even surpasses that album's brilliance in many ways. Where "...Hoodoo..." was more bluesy, "...Faraway..." is a bit more country, but that's hardly relevant. The point is that Mojomatics write great songs, and choose tasty covers, and then perform them with reckless abandon and fiery passion. If you like real country, blues, folk, garage, roadhouse music, and if you like to dance in your underwear while your stereo blasts at ear-puncturing volume, "Songs For Faraway Lovers" is as good as it gets. Record of the year! (BM)
MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL (USA)
Two tunes in and i'm hooked, could almost rival THE REIGNING SOUND in songwriting brillance. Injecting some infectious '60s whiteboy R' n ' B such as THE PRETTY THINGS, with the tambourine folk of, let's say, MOUSE AND THE TRAPS, with some raucous Delta blues an Atlantic soul. Christ, these boys can write them, play them, and sing them---retro without being, um, retro, folk without being cheesy, and soul without being another one of those soul/punk outfits. All brought together by their understanding of how to write a simple but great pop tune. Damn best record I've heard in a long long time!
MUSIC REVIEWER (USA)
Once in a while I’ll hit on a band that I might have missed the first time around, a band that knocks me on my butt and makes me run out and pick up their back catalogue. Spoon did that, so did The Unlovables, and now The Mojomatics had done the same. SONGS FOR FARAWAY LOVERS follows the duo’s debut full length CD, A SWEET MAMA GONNA HOODOO ME, and a bunch of singles. FARAWAY LOVERS is just great, 12 tracks full of British white boy blues, circa mid- to late-1960s. If you just sit back and let it play if sounds like a lost volume of British NUGGETS, with "Why Don’t You Leave Me" sounding like Them, "Leave This Town" and I’ll Be Home like The Kinks, "Right Or Wrong like early Yardbirds, and a whole bunch of tracks favoring the Rolling Stones from their beginning up through EXILE ON MAIN STREET, if they had drowned Mick Jagger instead of Brian Jones in the pool. "Stealin’ Stealin’" and "Hard Travelin’" are traditional blues numbers, though obscure, and the rest are original compositions by MojoMatt and DavMatic, but you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference. Rough and lo fi, but beautifully done, SONGS FOR RUNAWAY LOVERS couldn’t be better if it came out of your grandfather’s attic. SONGS FOR FARAWAY LOVERS isn’t an attempt to recapture an era; they actually somehow, someway, become one with the British rock scene of the mid-1960s. I can’t give any higher praise than that. Don’t miss this one. (9/10)
