Brooklyn six-piece Arthur Moon will be issuing an expanded release of their debut EP Our Head onMarch 24 via Velvet Elk Records. The band, led by Lora-Faye Ashuvud, will also be playing a hometown release show at Rough Trade NYC on March 28. WATCH "WIND UP" HERE
Early previews of the "intoxicating" record were met with much acclaim from publications like NOWNESS,Noisey, and Stereogum. The Velvet Elk Records release will include her icy, climactic cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Some of the tracks joyfully disorient a listener, inverting the rules of pop composition (see "Boxing" and "Bold Affair"). Others explore the way this disorientation inflects our relationships (see "Room") and political systems ("Wind Up").
Arthur Moon is the moniker of composer/singer Lora-Faye Ashuvud, whose unconventional, polymathic approach to composition evokes the idiosyncratic ethos of bands like
Radiohead and tUnE-yArDs. Ashuvud writes her lyrics using cut-up newspaper and magazine articles, and describes the process of composing the music as similarly collage-like. "On the best days," she said in a recent interview with LPR, "it feels kind of like playing a rousing game of Exquisite Corpse - except only with myself."
March 28 - NYC -
Rough Trade -
tickets here
Our Head Tracklist:
- Room
- Wind Up
- Bold Affair
- Boxing
- Beatles
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