Pottery share new single ‘Hot Heater’

Pottery press photo
Photo credit: Luke Orlando

Montreal’s Pottery have shared a new track Hot Heater – it’s the latest lifted from their much-anticipated debut album ‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel,’ out on June 26th via Royal Mountain Records and Partisan. Hot Heater is full of chugging low-end, blasts of disco beats and tribal chants from the Pottery crew. 

Discussing the track’s genesis, the band say: “While there are hints of environmental themes on this one, we mainly wanted to make a disco song with a robotic feeling, something that could be easily chanted. Austin was originally really interested in heat as a musical concept/feeling – some of the early album titles we threw around were ‘Hot Hot Hot’ and ‘Sun Fever’ – and there are a bunch of other heat references on the album [see previous single ‘Hot Like Jungle’]. In the studio he’d be joking around and yelling stuff at us like ‘let’s make it hot!’ right before a take. A lot of that didn’t end up totally sinking in, but some did…like on this song.

Listen to the track via YouTube below.

Pottery have previously shared a trio of Bobby’s Motel highlights – Texas Drums Pt. I & II, Take Your Time, and Hot Like Jungle – each their own window into the band’s psychedelic dreamworld.  

The album was produced by Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Snail Mail) and recorded at Montreal’s Break Glass studio. 

Although he occupies a central role within the album’s eleven tracks, it should be noted that Bobby is not technically a real person, and Bobby’s Motel is not a real place. Here’s how the band explain it:

Who is “Bobby,” you ask?
 
Enter Pottery. Enter Paul Jacobs, Jacob Shepansky, Austin Boylan, Tom Gould, and Peter Baylis. Enter the smells, the cigarettes, the noise, their van Mary, their friend Luke, toilet drawings, Northern California, Beatles accents, Taco Bell, the Great Plains, and hot dogs. Enter love and hate, angst and happiness, and everything in between. Beginning as an inside joke between the band members, Bobby and his “motel” have grown into so much more. They’ve become the all-encompassing alt-reality that the band built themselves, for everyone else. So, in essence, Bobby is Pottery and his motel is wherever they are.
 
But really, Bobby is a pilot, a lumberjack, a stay at home dad, and a disco dancer that never rips his pants. He’s a punching bag filled with comic relief. He laughs in the face of day-to-day ambiguity, as worrying isn’t worth it to Bobby. There’s a piece of him in everyone, there to remind us that things are probably going to work out, maybe. He’s you. He’s him. He’s her. He’s them. Bobby is always there, painted in the corner, urging you to relax and forget about your useless worries. And his motel? Well, the motel is life. It might not be clean, and the curtains might not shut all the way. The air conditioner might be broken, and the floors might be stained. But that’s okay, because you don’t go to Bobby’s Motel for the glamour and a good night’s sleep, the minibar, or the full-service sauna. You go to Bobby’s Motel to feel, to escape, to remember, to distract. You go for the late nights and early mornings, good times and the bad. You might spend your entire life looking for Bobby’s Motel and just when you think you will never find it, you realize you’ve been there all along. It’s filthy and amazing and you dance, and you love it.

Pottery Welcome To Bobby’s Motel cover artwork

‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel’ track list
1. Welcome to Bobby’s Motel
2. Hot Heater
3. Under The Wires
4. Bobby’s Forecast
5. Down In The Dumps
6. Reflection
7. Texas Drums Pt I & II
8. NY Inn
9. What’s In Fashion?
10. Take Your Time
11. Hot Like Jungle

Pottery’s ‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel‘ is out June 26th through Royal Mountain Records and Partisan. It’s available for pre-order it here.

Behind their acclaimed debut EP ‘No. 1’ last year, Pottery toured with Parquet Courts, Thee Oh Sees, Viagra Boys and Fontaines D.C.; played festivals including Green Man, End of the Road, SXSW, The Great Escape and Iceland Airwaves.