September 27 street date. "Stars Are The Light", the luminous seventh album by the American psych explorers Moon Duo, marks a progression into significantly new territory. From a preoccupation with the transcendental and occult that informed Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada's guitar-driven psych rock, and reached its apotheosis in the acclaimed "Occult Architecture" diptych, "Stars Are The Light" sees the band synthesize the abstract and metaphysical with the embodied and terrestrial. Branching out from "Occult Architecture Vol. 2", the album has a sonic physicality that is at once propulsive and undulating; it puts dance at the heart of an expansive nexus that connects the body to the stars. Taking disco as its groove-oriented departure point, "Stars Are The Light" shimmers with elements of '70s funk and '90s rave.
September 27 street date. "Stars Are The Light", the luminous seventh album by the American psych explorers Moon Duo, marks a progression into significantly new territory. From a preoccupation with the transcendental and occult that informed Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada's guitar-driven psych rock, and reached its apotheosis in the acclaimed "Occult Architecture" diptych, "Stars Are The Light" sees the band synthesize the abstract and metaphysical with the embodied and terrestrial. Branching out from "Occult Architecture Vol. 2", the album has a sonic physicality that is at once propulsive and undulating; it puts dance at the heart of an expansive nexus that connects the body to the stars. Taking disco as its groove-oriented departure point, "Stars Are The Light" shimmers with elements of '70s funk and '90s rave.
March 11 street date. New (coloured) vinyl pressing. "Shadow Of The Sun" is the result of a few months of Moon Duo wrangling with a new and unsettling way of being. Working both in a dark basement in Portland, and above ground in sunny San Francisco, these new sounds and songs veered dramatically from groove to groove, revealing sonic textures the duo had not previously explored. The song "Night Beat", with its woozy dance rhythm, is an attempt at finding joy and acceptance on this new, shifting ground, while "Wilding" plays off the familiar Moon Duo sound, taking refuge in a repetitive, grounding riff-scape. Elsewhere the band gives itself entirely up to the trip, cruising along on the fuzzed rhythms of "Slow Down Low" and "Free the Skull", crashing into the clenched-teeth herky-jerk of Zero, and floating down, down, down, on the narcotic mist of "In a Cloud".
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2019/09/27
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