Ava Luna - Moon 2 - VINYL LP

Clear Grape Colored Vinyl. Ava Luna's self-titled album is an introspective and grounded collection that marks a significant evolution for the quartet. The acclaimed group - now consisting of Carlos Hernandez, Julian Fader, Ethan Bassford, and Felicia Douglass - has stripped back their sound to it's core. Following the departure of Kye (fka Becca Kauffman) in 2019, Ava Luna re-emerges with a focus on the fundamental elements of drums, bass, and the dual vocals of Carlos and Felicia.The new album is decidedly Earth-bound, drawing heavily on the members' shared experiences and their deep roots in New York City. This back-to-basics approach was a conscious decision to move away from the expansive, InchcosmicInch feel of their previous album, Moon 2. Instead, the album delves into the nuances of everyday life, exploring themes of frustration and exhaustion that come with the mundane realities of work and survival, but also the joy and power in moving through life in community and chosen family, and finding precarious rootedness. For instance, InchLasting ImpressionInch captures the feeling of being fed up at a job, while InchMath Money JobInch offers a playful, body-conscious take on a friendly reunion, in the form of a schoolyard chant.At the heart of the album is the rhythmic interplay between Julian Fader's drums and Ethan Bassford's bass, forming a Inchclose to the earth, melting into the sidewalkInch foundation. This deliberate focus on the rhythm section was a key part of their creative process, ensuring the songs could stand strong in their most stripped-down before any additional layers were introduced. Julian specifically cites Soul Coughing as an influence, particularly their use of crude sampling, which can be heard scattered throughout the record, including on InchFrame of Us,Inch where their powerful rhythm section.Moving beyond traditional lead and backup

Muna is magic. What other band could have stamped the forsaken year of 2021 with spangles and pom-poms - made you sing (and maybe even believe) that InchLife's so fun, life's so fun,Inch during what may well have been the most uneasy stretch of your life? InchSilk Chiffon,Inch Muna's instant-classic cult smash, featuring the band's new tag head Phoebe Bridgers, hit the gray skies of the pandemic's year-and-a-half mark like a double rainbow. Pitchfork called it a Inchswirl of stomach butterflies,Inch NPR a Inchqueerworm,Inch Rolling Stone Inchone of the year's sweetest melodies, radiating the kind of pure pop bliss so many bands go for but almost never get this right.Inch For Naomi McPherson, Muna's guitarist and producer, it was a Inchsong for kids to have their first gay kiss to.Inch And several thousand unhinged Twitter and TikTok memes bloomed. Katie Gavin, Muna's lead singer and songwriter, wrote InchSilk ChiffonInch right after finishing the band's 2019 album, Saves the World. That was an LP whose lead single began InchSo I heard the bad news/ Nobody likes me and I'm gonna die alone in my bedroom/ Looking at strangers on my telephone,Inch and which ended with a hypnotic, self-searching confession about failure and consolation. Since the beginning of their career, Muna has embraced pain as a bedrock of longing, a center of radical truth, a part of growing up, and an inherent factor of marginalized experience - the band's members belong to queer and minority communities, and play for these fellow-travelers above all. But in InchSilk Chiffon,Inch there was just longing, and it was blissfully requited at that. InchIt's kind of a smooth-brain song,Inch Gavin says. InchSaves the World was therapy on a record, and I was starting to see changes in my life, more moments of joy. It's a big deal that someone like me could write that smooth!Inch What makes the confetti-gun r

We are excited to put Moonshake's debut album Eva Luna back in print, and on October 6th, we will a deluxe edition re-mastered from analogue ½Inch tape on double blue vinyl. Our reissue contains 19 tracks which equal the album's original 10, The non-LP three-song single InchSecondhand ClothesInch, the two b-sides from the InchBeautiful PigeonInch single and four tracks from a November 1992 John Peel session. The also includes an 8-page full-colour booklet. Moonshake was formed in 1991 by David Callahan (vocals, guitars, samplers), formerly of The Wolfhounds, and New York musician Margaret Fiedler (vocals, guitars, samplers). InchEva Luna really is one hell of a ground-breaking record, and it stands resolutely alone among all of the albums released in 1992 as no other band has managed to create anything remotely similar before or since. It really is a unique album with few equals.Inch - LOUDER THAN WARA1. City Poison A2. Sweetheart A3. Spaceship Earth A4. Beautiful Pigeon A5. Mugshot Heroine B1. Wanderlust B2. Tar Baby B3. Seen & Not Heard B4. Bleach & Salt Water B5. Little Thing C1. Secondhand Clothes C2. Blister C3. Beeside C4. Home Survival Kit C5. Drop in the Ocean D1. Coming (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session) D2. Beautiful Pigeon (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session) D3. Sweetheart (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session) D4. Mugshot Heroine (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session) Album Tracks 1. City Poison 2. Sweetheart 3. Spaceship Earth 4. Beautiful Pigeon 5. Mugshot Heroine 6. Wanderlust 7. Tar Baby 8. Seen & Not Heard 9. Bleach & Salt Water 10. Little Thing 11. Secondhand Clothes 12. Blister 13. Beeside 14. Home Survival Kit 15. Drop in the Ocean 1. Coming [BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session] 2. Beautiful Pigeon [BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session] 3. Sweetheart [BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session] 4. Mugshot Heroine [BBC Radio 1 John Peel Sessi