M.O.T.O.

***"Relying exclusively on his own cunning and brawn, Maestro Paul Caporino has led Masters Of The Obvious for a hair over 40 years now. While the full-band M.O.T.O. brand has cemented a formidable rep in the last two decades, well-versed fans yearn for the primitive sound of Paul’s bedroom hit-clinic cassettes. Those collections so eloquently kissed with hiss, containing bundles of hooks often too shocking for disc enshrinement. Few, if any, devotees soak themselves in M.O.T.O. minutia on the level of nuthin’s chairperson, so Wall Of Phlegm arrives guaranteed to please— the fruit of serious deliberation and perspiration, yet liable to cause the same upon consumption. How’d it even happen in the first place and why are we only hearing it now? The mystery of this mastery remains secret, but we can verify that the source material came to life in the late 1990s, with Caporino performing all racket with the requisite tossed-off genius that’s wrecked and inspired so many chasers of the crown. Primo Caporino, if you will. There are 21 or 22 tunes dripping down this Wall Of Phlegm and they’re all liable to drop jaws, even if you’ve been lucky enough to cruise a few of ‘em in prior iterations. Only a couple crack 2 minutes, but please don’t hold that against nuthin’ OR Paul…they tried. Prepare to span the globe again like we did last summer 2004, and 1997. M.O.T.O. is risen!"—Mitch Cardwell