Moody Motorcycle

Moody Motorcycle is an album by Human Highway. It was mastered by Fedge. The album's photography was done by Jaime Hogge. It was released on CD as well as root-beer brown Vinyl.^[1]

Moody Motorcycle
Studio album by Human Highway
Released	August 19, 2008 (Canada/US)
Recorded	2008
Genre	Indie pop/Indie rock
Length	39:18
Label	Suicide Squeeze (US), Secret City (CAN)
Producer	Jim Guthrie / Nick Thorburn

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Pitchfork Media	(5.7/10) link

The album contains recordings of songs created by singer-songwriter Jim Guthrie and Nicholas Thorburn, backed up by Evan Gordon, Geordie Gordon and Aaron Harris from the band Islands. The album was recorded at Guthrie's apartment in one week.^[2] Patrice Agbokou played bass on the song "My Beach".

Track listing

1. "The Sound" – 2:44 (music: Guthrie/Thorburn, lyrics Guthrie, Thorburn)
2. "All Day" – 3:32 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)
3. "Get Lost" – 3:52 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
4. "What World" – 3:33 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)
5. "Sleep Talking" – 3:34 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
6. "Moody Motorcycle" – 3:11 (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)
7. "My Beach" – 2:55 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
8. "Ode to Abner" – 1:59 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
9. "Pretty Hair" – 3:46 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
10. "Vision Failing" – 3:16 (music: Thorburn, lyrics: Thorburn)
11. "Duties of a Lighthouse Keeper (music: Guthrie, lyrics Guthrie/Thorburn)" – 3:51
12. "I Wish I Knew" (music/lyrics: Dallas, Taylor) – 3:04

Reception

Slant magazine describes the album as "breezy harmonies" with "acoustic balladeering".^[3] while Pop Matters praised the album's pop-influenced catchy melodies.^[4] The album was also reviewed by Tiny Mixtapes,^[5] Toronto Star^[6] and the North Adams Transcript^[7] The reviews were generally fairly positive.