LABEL: Souterrain Transmissions
CAT NO: SOU22X
BARCODE: 4250506840457
Tracklisting:
A1. Seer
A2. Mazes
A3. Scars
A4. Fallout
B1. When You Cut
B2. Run Around
B3. In The Sun
B4. Goners
MOON DUO – Mazes
[2021 Reissue]
LP – Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Crystal Clear Vinyl
(Includes download code)
Formed in San Francisco in 2009 by Wooden Shijps guitarist Ripley Johnson and his partner, Sanae Yamada, Moon Duo’s first two critically acclaimed EPS, Killing Time (2009) and Escape (2010), fused the futuristic pylon hum and transistor reverb of Suicide or Silver Apples with the heat-haze fuzz of american rock ‘n’ roll to create tracks of blistering, 12-cylinder space rock. Their debut album Mazes, recorded in San Francisco and mixed in Berlin during 2010 as the band prepared to move to the mountains of Colorado, explores a far broader, lighter, sound. That’s most clear on the dreamy organ and skipping riff of the title track, which recalls the Velvet Underground, or the handclaps and swinging organ bloops over the potent shredding and guttural riff delivered by Johnson in ‘when you cut’. Throughout, Mazes is the sound of Moon Duo carving out their own identity, looking to the horizon, and moving forward.
See below for tracklisting…