By Stephen Moore

Mother Mother stirring emotions with Dance and Cry tour

Feb 13, 2019 | 2:54 PM

The Canadian rock scene is booming with talent right now.

Vancouver pop rock group, Mother Mother is on tour promoting their Dance and Cry album. They came to Red Deer Tuesday night to perform at Bo’s Bar and Grill.

Patrick Bateman of 106.7 THE DRIVE sat down with Ryan and Jasmine from Mother Mother to talk about the evolution of their music, and what Dance and Cry means to them.

The band was in Red Deer back in June on their Oh My Heart 10-year anniversary tour and was very excited to return to our city.

Jasmine: “I think it’s just gotten better and better and better. There’s only one reason to come back and that’s when people love you and it’s just good times, good vibes and amazing. That’s all it is here. It’s fantastic.”

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Mother Mother played a unique show in June, playing everything from their Oh My Heart record. It was a different experience for them.

Ryan: “You don’t typically play an album front to back live because it doesn’t quite serve the nature of the energy live. To play an album it’s kind of like you have these strange peaks and valleys for the live setting and everyone just has to kind of surrender to that strange energy contour. I think that just forced us to exist in what would otherwise be high energy moments. It’s a slow song at the end of the set. It was very different for us. We just kind of have to go there but I think for that reason it was good for us.”

Jasmine: “It was so heartwarming to see just these people who thought they would never hear us play like “Try to Change” or some of the deeper tracks on the record. There was a really tangible different feeling in the room at those shows. It was really beautiful, the energy.”

Mother Mother has an incredibly unique and consistent sound. That said, they have evolved as a group and evolved in a musical sense.

Ryan: “Things were a little bit more verbose and heady back then. The arrangements maybe had jazzy flourishes that maybe they don’t have any more so much. I like the way the band has evolved. It was helpful to go back and go ‘ok, yeah wow we took these chances back then’ and it’s inspiring. I think it informed some of this new writing on this new record.”

Their previous tours also lent some influence to the new album, Dance and Cry.

Ryan: “I think it (touring) inspired how we recorded it which was more in a grassroots and organic strip down way in a studio together playing the songs kind of live. I think it had just more of that elastic human quality like the older stuff have. I think that’s what we like the most.”

The band started their Dance and Cry tour on January 12th and there’s been an incredible reaction from fans through the whole thing.

Jasmine: “This tour has been just as good (as oh my heart) in so many ways. I feel like this record has been really immediate for people. They already know the words, they’re really stoked, big reactions to new songs which is not always the case. It’s been lovely.”

Ryan: “We wanted to make an emotional record. Not think it but feel it. When I was writing it was kind of like ‘does this stir my soul?’ No. Let’s just move on and pursue ideas until something does. I think when you make a record with that mandate, people are going to respond more emotionally.” 

Mother Mother will wrap up their current tour in March.