last couple weeks

this is the best thing ive heard in a really really long time, finally bit the bullet and picked it up on vinyl this week

yknow when you read reviews, especially aquarius reviews, and super fuckin especially for psych and noise stuff, and they make it sound totally incredible and compare it to a bunch of stuff you love and then it you finally hear it and its just another decent like, burnt hills record you listen to once

moon duo sounds exactly like the way people talk about wooden shjips

i mean its the main wooden shjips guys side project, but its basically shjips minus everything about them that i dont like

nothing but fuzzed out organ, guitar, feedback, minimal drum machine, and some echoey distorted vox, it sounds like these guys listen to nothing but cale era vu bootlegs and the first 2 mary chain records and suicide . so far they've only got an ep and a 12", so i dont know whats really gonna come next, but i'm really fucking excited. theyre playing at the hemlock november 20. i emailed them and they said they'd rather I didnt post the ep, so here's my 2 favorite songs of theirs

speed
love on the sea

the mantles - trust 7"

woozy psych pop jams from some local dudes

havent been able to find a physical copy of the 7' yet but theyre playing july 2 at the hemlock so hopefully i makw it out to that

1st track is kinda crystal stilts-y but it doesnt sound like theyre trying as hard, the whole thing is real relaxed, neato organs and chimey guitars, sorta croony vocals, hitting the same sort of sweet spot as the fee fi fo fums, but more fleshed out. somewhere between them and crystal stilts.

2nd track is the real find though, fuzzed out everything, stoned out vocals, slower and tighter bass+drums, total vespa jam