Weirdness is a requirement if you lay claim to being America’s best krautrock band, and with the end-times dance rock Møtrik makes on their latest LP, Earth , that claim feels accurate.

It was largely a bunch of crazed German geniuses who invented this hybrid style of progressive and psychedelic rock, punk, electronic, and deeply rhythmic percussion in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Fans of the cultish genre known for acts like Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk and Faust tend to connect through the insider knowledge required to love this musically challenging and weirdly danceable music.

That is precisely what drew the members of Portland’s own krautrock torchbearers together roughly a decade ago. Even their name is a nod to the “motorik,” the repetitious 4/4 beat that gives krautrock its signature

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