Mordor Truckers Release New EP Nowhere
Brazilian trio Mordor Truckers last hailed with the 2020 single “Red Sands” (review here) from what at the time was a herald of a debut studio EP to come. Up to that point and still to-date, the band’s most substantial offering was/is 2019’s Ao Vivo – Pequeno Anfiteatro, and indeed both cuts on the new two-songer Nowhere featured there as well: “Ammit” and “Mindless.”
That release — which even has the photo above for its cover, making that also at least four years old; a different version was used in the post linked above, so they’ve definitely gotten some mileage out of it — was much rawer in sound, but had a personality of its own in bootleg fashion. I doubt Mordor Truckers intended at the time that it would become the epicenter of everything else they’d do for nearly the next half-decade, but at least it doesn’t suck. It’s got that going for it.
Nowhere picks up more or less where “Red Sands” left off, with a north-of-six-and-a-half-minute run of psychedelia-informed heavy rock, loose-feeling in its construction as “Mindless” works into and through its jammy midsection, but never in any real danger of losing its footing with the wall o’ fuzz looming just ahead. As with “Ammit,” guitarist/vocalist Manuel Ceballos, bassist Patrick Jordy and drummer/backing vocalist Brendan Bazzi keep a mind toward atmosphere, and as well as sheer nod, though “Ammit” grows more active and noisier from its quiet, meditative beginning.
Either way you go, you don’t lose. It’s a short release, obviously, but its two songs are still more than you’d likely cram on a 7″ and they want three bucks for them. Doesn’t seem like too huge an ask, though one hopes that at some point soon they dig into making a debut full-length as well, even if that’s just a compilation of the various tracks they’ve put out thus far with another song or two included. We’ll see I guess. Vibe is right on in the meantime, though, and I enjoy specifically how cult or purposefully-vague sounding this isn’t.
From the PR wire:
Mordor Truckers – Nowhere EP
After a certain time without new releases, the stoner rock/stoner doom trio “Mordor Truckers” appears now with a new and also well-known material in the newest and most recent EP titled as “Nowhere”.
The release is the result of a totally independent production by the band and contains two songs previously released only in a live version, now recorded and mixed by Júlio Cesar at “Wecando Music” studio in Joinville – Brazil.
The songs are “Mindless” and “Ammit” and are available on several major music streaming platforms, youtube and bandcamp.
Tracklisting:
1. Ammit 07:05
2. Mindless 06:46
Mordor Truckers is:
Patrick Jordy: Bass
Manuel Ceballos: Guitar/Vocals
Brendan Bazzi: Drums/Backing Vocals
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