The long tail of Krautrock in all its droney, repetitive permutations continues to be felt in modern music, some 40+ years after artists like Faust, Kraftwerk, and Can arrived in the world. It's what you do with those influences that matters. And no one is doing more with the raw materials of this sound than Motrik. This quartet from Portland, Oregon - bassist/vocalist Erik Goltz, drummer Lee Ritter, guitarist Cord Amato and synth wizard Dave Fulton - connect up with the sounds of the past like an M.C. Escher mural: it follows the same patterns but takes them in much different directions with much more colorful and mind-altering results.