Tyson Motsenbocker Loses His Milk Teeth (+ Madison Cunningham’s ”Revealer” on the Jukebox)

Tyson Motsenbocker is quite an anomaly. He's a young, hip
songwriter/artist who crafts alternative, modern-sounding pop (in
the tradition of Postal Service or Death Cab) with obvious
compositional influences coming from sources much older. He is
also willing to tackle difficult, even controversial issues –
including racism, hypocrisy, addiction, immaturity, and mental
health challenges – with both scathing insight and
self-deprecating wit. And as if that is not enough, after
spending his formative years in the Evangelical subculture,
Motsenbocker leaves one foot in that world, even while critiquing
it and his own long-held beliefs, in the process. His latest
album, Milk Teeth, dives headfirst into the complicated subject
of adulthood as it contemplates our collective loss of vision,
empathy, and imagination as our childish ways erode. From
Steinbeck to surfing, Motsenbocker offers a flurry of revealing
metaphors for his own faltering but committed, spiritual,
cultural, and relational journey through life.


 


On our Jukebox feature, we take a careful listen to another of
our favorite young artists, Madison Cunningham, who sang with
Tyson on his previous LP and hails from the same hometown (San
Diego.) Cunningham's new Revealer LP is finally available and
well worth the wait.


 


For the full list of music used on this episode and a lot more,
visit the Show Notes page at TrueTunes.com/MilkTeeth.


 


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