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"Sassy female-fronted power trio crushes heads with math-punk chaos and prog dexterity. As heavy as a Japanese mega-monster but with much more control of their digits...A forceful new trio that will tear you a hole and stick their noise in it until it blows out your other side." - Eye Weekly
"Playing the guitar-free game with greater live ease than most bands going the bass and drums route these days, BCs Mothra also draw on the ample sonic possibilities provided by weird-ass keyboard sounds and jarring boy/girl vocal trade-offs. With heavy, catchy riffs sharing song space with intricate jazz breakdowns and complex math rock bridges, this is a band that forces people to pay attention, nod their head and then get confused as shit." - SS, Exclaim! Magazine
"This trio discharges powerful currents from its musical wings, which alternately flutter through graceful passages and beat out twitchy fits." - Joel McConvey, Heather Adler, Dose
MOTHRA was created by Liam and Allan in November 2004 as a bass and drums duo, and was quickly transformed into a 3-piece in February 2005 when Karla brought synth and vocals into the mix. Drawing on a broad range of influences including indie rock, punk, hardcore, metal, and prog, MOTHRA has found a sound to call its own. Full of energy and bursting at the seams, MOTHRA rides a fine line between chaos and beauty.
Hard work, dedication, and focus has paid off for MOTHRA since their inception two years ago. The band recorded their self-titled debut at The Hive Creative Labs studio in Vancouver with Colin Stewart (Hot Hot Heat, Black Mountain, Pretty Girls Make Graves), which has received outstanding reviews. MOTHRA has played shows extensively in the past year, both locally and throughout Canada. In 2006, they played a showcase for Canadian Music Week in Toronto in March, and played 25 shows on a six-week cross-Canada tour in Sept./Oct. The energy, passion and technical wizardry demonstrated by MOTHRA in their live show has turned heads in the Vancouver music scene and beyond, resulting in the development of an ever-growing fanbase. Above all, the band will continue to concentrate on what is most important - the creation and performance of unique, genuine, energy-packed music that they believe in.
"Like the filmic menace, Mothra the group tear shit up in the best-post-hardcore tradition...Mothra combine the seething fury of Mach Tiver with the technical prowess of I Am Spoonbender, with guy/gal tradeoff vocals in the vein of The Red Light Sting. Liam Bryant wrings devestating leads from his bass, wielding it like a guitar with chording and finger-tapping galore." Jordan Lane, Beatroute
"Mothra's sonic experiments do not result in the type of meandering and directionless clusterfuck which usually denote bands who are trying too hard to create indefinable music - their liberal hunger for exploring the less oft-visited realm of what three piece bands sans guitars can create is much more subtle and refined. You could peg them as experimental yet structured noise-rock with an affinity for jagged ambiance, moderate grind, and old Sonic Youth records..." Casper Neurotic, Threeohsix.org
"Mothra are the latest in heavy, technically adept and aesthetically astute musicianship. When I say latest, I mean the greatest; Mothra is your new pet rat. The trio from Vancouver, BC breaks down oppressive walls of the media pop box by performing without a net, letting loose and flying with shocking aural chaos. Super tight bass riffs and distorted, the tracks from the self-titled album form a riveting debut; a brutally visceral expose buried in violent sonic mayhem. Sometimes a quiet little album comes out and digs its nettles into your skin; this is one such record...addictive, heavy, technical, and frantic at times, wonderful." Dixon Christie, Punktv.ca
