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Trust Us is the seventh full-length studio album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 rock-band Motorpsycho
Motorpsycho
Motorpsycho is a band from Trondheim, Norway. Their music can generally be defined as psychedelic rock, but they also mix in elements from metal, jazz, rock, pop and many other musical styles. The members of the band are Bent Sæther , Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan and Kenneth Kapstad...

.

The tracks "Ozone" and "Hey, Jane" were also released as EPs. In 1999, The song "Vortex surfer" was selected by the NRK P3 radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

-station as the "song of the millennium", and was played continuously for 24 hours on December 31.

The cover-art was, as usual, made by Kim Hiorthøy
Kim Hiorthøy
Kim Hiorthøy is a Norwegian electronic musician, graphic designer, illustrator, filmmaker and writer.-Biography:Hiorthøy was born and raised in Trondheim, Norway, and studied at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art as well as the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen...

, who also directed the promo-videos for the two EPs.

Track listing

Disc 1:
  1. "Psychonaut" – 6:58 (Sæther)
  2. "Ozone" – 4:33 (Sæther)
  3. "The Ocean In Her Eye" – 9:15 (Ryan/Sæther/Sten)
  4. "Vortex Surfer" – 8:59 (Ryan/Sæther)
  5. "Syddhardtino" – 1:37 (Seim)
  6. "577" – 7:48 (Sæther)


Disc 2:
  1. "Evernine" – 5:07 (Ryan/Sæther)
  2. "Mantrick Muffin Stomp" – 3:50 (Ryan/Sæther)
  3. "Radiance Frequency" – 10:21 (Sæther)
  4. "Taifun" – 7:09 (Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther)
  5. "Superstooge" – 6:48 (Gebhardt/Ryan/Sæther)
  6. "Coventry Boy" – 2:32 (Ryan)
  7. "Hey, Jane" – 5:14 (Sæther)
  8. "Dolphin" – 1:25 (Ryan/Sæther/Seim)

Personnel

  • Bent Sæther: vocals, bass, guitars, piano, percussion, harmonium, marimba, vibraphone, trident, mellotron, sitar, taurus, drums
  • Hans Magnus Ryan: guitars, vocals, mandolin, harmonium, rhodes piano, taurus, mellotron, piano, bells
  • Håkon Gebhardt: drums, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, mellotron, harmonium, percussion


with:
  • Helge Sten (Deathprod): loops, theremin, echomachines
  • Ole Henrik Moe (Ohm): saw, violin, glass
  • Trygve Seim: reindeer antler, flutes, saxophone, clarophone
  • Tone Reichelt: french horn on "Taifun"
  • Kai O. Andersen: Upright bass on "Ozone"
  • Jarle Vespestad
    Jarle Vespestad
    Jarle Vespestad is a Norwegian jazz percussionist.He graduated from the Toneheim Folk High School and Jazzlinja...

    : beats on "Evernine"
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