Montreal’s Pottery have shared the smouldering surf-rock closing track lifted from their upcoming debut LP ‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel’ (which will be out June 26th via Royal Mountain Records/Partisan). Hot Like Jungle is accompanied by an animated video created by Pottery drummer Paul Jacobs. Check out the video clip via a YouTube below.
Speaking on the song’s inspiration, the band says: “This was written as a love song for Paul’s girlfriend. He had a job working construction one summer came up the lyrics almost as a sort of Springsteen parody, they’re very blue-collar, very working class. When Austin sings it we always picture him on a mountain shouting off into the distance with a girl out there singing back to him.”
Pottery have previously shared other singles from ‘Welcome To Bobby’s Motel’ including Texas Drums Pt. I & II and Take Your Time, each their own window into the band’s psychedelic dreamworld.
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.
‘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
