Pilomotor is a Swiss indie pop band, who in 2003 were nominated as the “DRS 3 Best Talent” (today’s SRF 3). Three albums in five years and innumerable live concerts are testimony to Pilomotor’s creative drive. Nor can the band complain about a lack of airplay: hardly any radio station in Switzerland has failed to succumb to their charms.
The look of the debut album Magic Hour takes its compulsion from its imaginative, nostalgic design. The booklet, bound in red velvet with gold-foil embossing and elaborate inner design, not only provides acoustic joy but also presents a display of tactile-visual fireworks with echoes of surreal carnivals and daring acrobats. The music video to the song Liar was entirely realised by silent studio, starting with the storyboard and the staging to the final production. It was nominated – along with those by Stress and Yello – for the best work in the Edi. category “Music Clips”.