Pottery have shared their new song Take Your Time, a hyperactive Andy Gill-indebted dance-punk track. The accompanying video adds Devo-level world building to their commentary on the shadier side of recreational drug use.
Watch the Take Your Time video clip via YouTube below.
Take Your Time is lifted from the band’s debut LP ‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel’ out April 10 via Royal Mountain Records and Partisan Records. The album is an acid trip through the dreamworld of a fictional “Bobby” character. I love these few lines that the band wrote themselves to explain the concept. (See below.)
“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. 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. It’s filthy and amazing and you dance, and you love it.”
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
The guys also just confirmed a big headline US tour in July. Those dates are here.
Tour Dates
30 April – Toronto, ON – The Garrison
2 May – Burlington, VT – Waking Windows
4 May – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
5 May – Washington, DC – Songbyrd
7 May – New York, NY – The Dance
8 May – Boston, MA – Great Scott
9 May – Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa
22 May – Antwerp, BE – Trix Bar
23 May – Hamburg, DE – Nochtspeicher
24 May – Berlin, DE – Berghain Kantine
25 May – Prague, CZ – Underdogs
26 May – Vienna, AT – B72
28 May – Basel, CH – Sommercasino (Czar Fest)
29 May – Milan, IT – Ohibo Club
30 May – Fucecchio, IT – Beat Festival, Limonaia
2 June – Madrid, ES – Wurlitzer Ballroom
4 June – Pau, FR – Le Pingouin Alternatif
6 June – Lyon, FR – Le Sonic
8 June – Brighton, UK – Chalk
9 June – Manchester, UK – Yes
10 June – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
11 June – London, UK – The Dome Tufnell Park
12-14 June – Hilvarenbeek, NL – Best Kept Secret
31 July-August 2 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga
