'Memory Banker' by Mother Sun | New Album, 'Train of Thought'

Today, Canadian psych quartet Mother Sun share a brand new LP entitled ‘Train of Thought,’ out now via Earth Libraries, as well as the band’s own small label, Kamloops BC-based Divine Bovine Records. To celebrate, they have also released a music video for ‘Memory Banker,’ the record’s focus track.

Speaking on the track and its accompanying video, vocalist Jared Doherty wrote: “This song imagines your brain as a teller at a bank, pulling subconscious strings, filing away new information, tugging at the past and basking in the faint glow of faded nostalgia.

Its accompanying video was spontaneously shot on the drive home from the studio we were recording at, Little Red Sounds in Vancouver, at about 2 am. Once I started filming, the lens slowly unfocused and all the lights turned into beautiful soft circles swimming around the screen. One memory drifts into another on a late night drive through the back of your mind.”

‘Train of Thought,’ the third full length release by Mother Sun, is a 12 song day trip through an overstimulated frame of mind. Using 60’s and 70’s psych pop, garage rock, jazz and soul as a jumping off point, the band refined their modern eclectic storytelling through lush and adventurous arrangements, highlighted by abstract hooks, velvety strings and triumphant horns.

The record was recorded primarily live off the floor at Little Red Sounds Studio in Vancouver BC by producer Felix Fung. On the record, Mother Sun teamed up with a variety of musicians from their hometown of Kamloops BC, notably a string quartet from the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra. Horn arrangements written by two members of the band were performed by Vancouver based musicians Anita Eccleston and Mike WT Allen.