2% out of Sync

2% out of Sync is the first album by One Thousand Motels, a collaboration project of Rat Scabies and Chris Constantinou.

Background

The bassist/multi-instrumentalist Chris Constantinou and drummer Rat Scabies collaborated for some years as core members of The Mutants rock supergroup. When making the fourth Mutants album, Rat also noticed some other demos Chris was working on and this turned into the project One Thousand Motels, involving only the two of them. In September 2020, they released the first album 2% out of Sync.

Reception

The album was noticed in reviews as forging new ground with only a customary nod to the past of the two musicians. A Vive Le Rock article characterized the music as "upbeat rock songs with a twist in the lyrical tail" and the review of the same magazine gave it a 7/10 rating, describing it as a high spirited, elaborated album.