Motherhood - "Kyle Hangs Ten"

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Photo by Naomi Peters

Motherhood have a new art-surf-punk single out, and this one is a lot of fun. The Canadian band have reworked their previous song "Kyle Hangs at Noon" into "Kyle Hangs Ten," and the result is a bizarro surf song that morphs an artist like The Cramps into art rock. It starts off as a fairly standard surf rock song (albeit a dark one), and then the wheels start falling off the longer it goes. It's a little creepy, and is kind of begging to get added to some Halloween playlists. And then the song hits a bump and the noise starts creeping in until it's almost unrecognizable. "Kyle Hangs Ten" probably won't be for everyone out there, but if you like dark and bizarre surf punk, this one will totally be for you.

Motherhood says of their latest single:

"With 'Kyle Hangs Ten,' we were trying to write the most surfy song we could without over-complicating a genre that, at it’s core, is just swaggy country music. Adam had a drum beat that we jammed over, eventually falling into a Miserlou-adjacent guitar melody and filling the rest with pastiches."

You can listen to "Kyle Hangs Ten" below. The single is out now on Forward Music Group. For more on Motherhood, check out the artist's website. Upcoming tour dates are below the song and include a March 3 show at O'Brien's in Allston.


March 3 - Boston, MA: O'Brien's 
March 4 - Philadelphia, PA: Nikki Lopez 
March 5 - Brooklyn, NY: Alphaville w/ Balaclava 
March 6 - Winooski, VT: The Monkey House 
March 7 - Sutton, QC: La Sag
March 8 - Catskill, NY: Avalon Lounge 
March 28 - Boise, ID: Treefort Music Fest
April 18 - Fredericton, NB: The Cap
May 14/15 - Paris, FR: Supersonic's Block Party 
May 16 - Strasbourg, FR: Pelpass Festival 
May 18 - Skofja Loka, SI: AKC Nama
May 19 - Budapest, HU: Szimpla Kert // FREE
May 20 - Pilsen, CZ: Mistni Borci
May 21 - Hamburg, DE: Deichdiele
May 22 - Frankfurt, DE: Dreikönigskeller
May 23 - The Hague, NL: Sniester 

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