Kino Motel Shares "Simple Desire" Via Under The Radar, Official Music Video Coming Soon

KINO MOTEL SHARES "SIMPLE DESIRE"  VIA UNDER THE RADAR OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO OUT NEXT MONTH

LISTEN & SHARE: KINO MOTEL - "Simple Desire" Soundcloud / Spotify / Bandcamp WATCH & SHARE: KINO MOTEL - "Waves" [Official Music Video] Youtube LISTEN & SHARE: KINO MOTEL - "Waves" Soundcloud / Spotify   "The band conjures a fascinating and constantly shifting soundscape that expertly walks the line between discordant and melodious." - Under The Radar "Featuring a rooftop Kung Fu master and a villain with strange demands, the video takes us on a journey through the gritty backstreets of Bangkok. The second single from Kino Motel takes us to Vietnam, the third to Australia, and you’ll have to keep following them around for more." - Flaunt Magazine "That guitar twangs with all the beguiling simmer of the best Telecasters; Ed’s voice brings the gravel; the strings pitch and slide, taking your heart with them as is their wont." - Backseat Mafia "The two vocals harmonize beautifully over the, at first stripped back, then swelling instrumentation. Especially the raspy voice of Ed Fraser enhances the nocturnal vibes of the song. Waves has elements of a pop song but twists and turns them to something else." - NBHAP "The rough edges in Kino Motel’s sound is balanced by catchy hooks and beautiful harmonizing between the two vocalists... its neo-noir aesthetic also recalls the haunting desert soundtracks of decades-old spaghetti westerns. - mxdwn "“Waves" is a sprawling, ominous, cinematic “grit pop” track" - XS Noize Melbourne-based duo KINO MOTEL’s windy and spacious second single, "Simple Desire", sees Rosa Mercedes take on lead vocal duties, weaving her addictive melodies around deep rolling bass lines. Bandmate Ed Fraser provides a bendy soundscape on guitars and synth, using seemingly elastic notes to bend each section into the next, while Josefin Runsteen completes the composition with some beautifully-vintage drum beats. Under The Radar premiered the track, praising the band's ability to "create a weightless character for the melody, anchored only by an ever-steady rhythm section." The song opens up and pushes us into an ethereal scene, we hear mellotron with 70s-cult-inspired backing vocals, and Rosa’s addictive tones complete each chorus with the line ’Til all the grey will saturate to black and white’ - looking for something concrete, devoid of middle ground. Clocking in at just under 3 minutes, this all makes for an intriguing, strange-yet-catchy listen - a sound the band has labeled ‘grit pop’. Simple Desire features drums from Josefin Runsteen (DAMIEN RICE, JENS LEKMAN), and was recorded in Berlin and Melbourne by Sebastian Maschat (THE WHITEST BOY ALIVE) and Ed Fraser respectively, and mastered in Hamburg by Philipp Welsing, with the accompanying moto-action video having been shot in Vietnam. The video for Simple Desire is a sequel to the Bangkok-set first single "Waves" and forms the 2nd of a 5-part series that will see Kino Motel take us around the globe. LINKS Facebook | Website | SoundCloud | Bandcamp | Instagram | YouTube   "Simple Desire" Single Artwork KINO MOTEL Bio: KINO MOTEL is the brand new project from Ed Fraser and Rosa Mercedes, with a series of upcoming releases they’ve labeled ‘grit pop’. After meeting in a commune in Berlin, the duo deserted together and hit the road. Following a grimy and particularly sweaty basement karaoke session somewhere in Vietnam in 2019, Fraser and Mercedes realized they needed to form a band, and KINO MOTEL was created. Named for the bar in which it was conceived, KINO MOTEL listeners can expect dusty melancholic gritty pop.