Local indie synth-pop band, Motion Trap is ready for their next era. The band has been churning out indelible earworm ready tunes since 2012, but this year they’re upping the ante. With a bold new look and a sun-kissed sound, the band is already making waves on the heels of the first taste of new material since their 2017 debut project, Heavenly Bodies, a song called”N2U.” The song, a glistening poolside ’80s-pop throwback, in the vein of Cut Copy and Holy Ghost! may perhaps be the best song the band has released yet. But, it keeps getting better. Set to debut their new look and sound at Lost Lake Lounge, Friday, June 21, Motion Trap sat down with us to discuss their recent changes and where they plan to go from here.
303 Magazine: You’ve been working on a new image, what inspired that?
Nathan Rogers: We doubled down on what we’ve done in the past and moved forward with that. We, as Motion Trap, have a lot of spacey imagery with a neon, psychedelic, kind of a dark synth-pop type of thing that we’ve dabbled with in the past. We’ve defined it a little bit more, I guess you could say. With this show coming up, we have matching fiber optic bomber jackets, we’re doing a custom hand painted black light scenery that we’ll use for projections and we also have these holograms too, that we are going to project different videos on — from space scenes to nature to abstract type of stuff.
303: Why’s now the time for such a transformative change?
KW: With Heavenly Bodies, I think a lot of things were really moving forward. I think we transformed from a band that only a handful of people knew to last October, opening for BØRNS and playing for 3,200 people at the Fillmore. I think it’s more, look at what we’ve been doing this whole time. I really think to top yourself, you don’t want to get stagnant or feel like you aren’t moving forward. Nathan and I will sit in a room and brainstorm ideas. What are some crazy things that we could do that we’ve never seen a Denver band do before? That’s the mentality we’ve had from the beginning, but now I think now it’s catching on.
NR: We’re evolving, this is just the evolution.
KW: There’s also a reason why you’ll maybe see only two or three Motion Trap headlining shows a year, and that’s because as much as we love to play, we love to give our audience an experience. We want to give the audience something that they’ll remember forever, and hopefully give them something that they weren’t expecting. If they’re returning, then they are expecting something crazy. Bands have different ways of connecting with their crowds — some bands play every weekend and that’s fine, but for us, we rather have quality over quantity when it comes to a headlining show.
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