Moon Duo, Psychedelic Rock Down To Basics

At the moment I’m going through a psychedelic Krautrock phase, which means that I can’t get enough of Wooden Shjips and their main man Ripley Johnson’s other band Moon Duo. Usually when someone does a side project they make music that isn’t the sort of stuff that they would play in their day job band. But with Moon Duo there’s still the echo and delay effect vocals and guitar solos. Still the solid simple drumbeat, though with a drum machine. But instead of the repetitive baselines there’s a repetitive organ melody or a drone or both together.
Like The White Stripes early recordings both of Moon Duo’s albums Escape and Mazes sound as if they could have been knocked out over a weekend or two. That’s not a criticism, its part of their charm.



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