Bad Sector by The MOTES

It’s the end of 1999, every computer on earth is about to implode, and The MOTES are dead.

I remember loading gear into the trunk of a car after we finished recording The Remains of False Starts. It seemed almost violent the way Jon and I tossed amps and guitars and keyboards around, such was the animosity between us.

The millennium turned, the apocalypse didn’t happen, but North of America, Equation of State, and Recyclone did. Enough to take our minds elsewhere, show us how different it could be, for better or for worse.

We formed INSTRUMENTS with a strict set of rules. Pages long. All the things we can do better from a clean slate. All the conflict we can avoid with “it’s not in the rules”.

Creating was hard, but we knew there was something underneath. A bond, an understanding.

A few years in and familiar things started bubbling to the surface. “Not in the rules!” We doubled down. 2012 and the veneer cracked with Trellis III Tripod. 2015 and Spirit Duplicator told the story from the beginning.

2020 and it’s clear - we were making it the whole time.

So here it is - The MOTES album we made in spite of ourselves. The dead hard drive. The lost files. The Bad Sector.

Indie rock with industrial leanings and progressive aspirations.