Tag: moon duo

LIVE: Wooden Shjips – The Scala, London 30.10.16

It sometimes feels like you can’t move for bands/groups divining/refining inspiration from the lysergic “codified” 1960s, Lenny Kaye’s “seminal” Nuggets’ influence growing trendier, groovier and cooler by the second. So, it’s extra special when a band exists that respect a script…

ALBUM: Moon Duo ‘Shadow of the Sun’

Rating: “Err, sort of if Neil Young joined Kraftwerk, or something… I suppose.” That was the rather embarrassed, shoe shuffling description Ripley Johnson offered of the Moon Duo sound in an early interview. His partner Sanae Yamada smiled awkwardly, tried…

EP REVIEW: Moon Duo ‘Live In Ravenna’

Rating: Having only released two full-length albums since their formation back in 2009, some would deem it odd that Moon Duo have decided that their latest offering would be a live album. However, Live in Ravenna is the perfect document of…