Pottery Announce Debut Album and More

Photo by: Luke Orlando

Seems as though April 2020 is the month to watch, as multiple artists begin to drop announcements regarding new record releases. One of our personal favourite Canadian acts, Pottery, are one of those bands.

April 10 is the date to watch, as Pottery release their first full-length album titled “Welcome to Bobby’s Motel,” through Partisan Records (Rest of World) and Royal Mountain Records (Canada). The album was produced by Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Snail Mail) and recorded at Montreal’s Break Glass studio.

Pottery released their first two-part single and music video off of the debut album titled “Texas Drums Pt | & ||.” The video [directed by Paul Jacobs, Jacob Shepansky, alongside Meagan Callen in collaboration with Montreal based filmmaker Charlie Coote] features what we can imagine to be Bobby in two forms; both goofy and serious, played by brothers Evan and Nick Sharma. The videos shows the boys wandering through a series of different places and meeting face-to-face with variety of characters.

The song itself stays true to the bands energetic, 70s psych/punk rock sound that we heard on the band’s first EP release “No.1,” but has been morphed into a rather more mature manner. Rightful titled “Texas Drums,” the single is lead by a heavy amount of percussion, taking their emphasized rhythms and bringing them into the limelight.

When asked who Bobby is, Pottery explained:

“Enter Pottery. Enter Paul Jacobs, Jacob Shepansky, Austin Boylan, Tom Gould, and Peter Baylis. Enter the smells, the cigarettes, the noise, their van Mary, their friend Luke, toilet drawings, Northern California, Beatles accents, Taco Bell, the Great Plains, and hot dogs. Enter love and hate, angst and happiness, and everything in between. 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. He’s you. He’s him. He’s her. He’s them. Bobby is always there, painted in the corner, urging you to relax and forget about your useless worries. 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. You go for the late nights and early mornings, good times and the bad. You might spend your entire life looking for Bobby’s Motel and just when you think you will never find it, you realize you’ve been there all along. It’s filthy and amazing and you dance, and you love it.”

Tour Dates

Groovy TunesFebruary 5, 2020