Circles
Sacred Bones
2012
Rating: 6 bloody flashlights out of 10
Moon Duo is best known as the side project of Wooden Shjips' Ripley Johnson, though at this point this duo may have gained more coverage/attention than his "main" gig. Like their previous records the guitar looms front and present, heavy in that Spacemen 3/My Bloody Valentine sort of way; unlike those records, the songs are almost "power pop" in their construction - mostly gone is the krautrock vibe that dominated before, replaced by a more straight-forward shoegaze sound. It's by no means bad music, but even after multiple listens I found it never really stuck to my bones. I'm sure they're still just as great live as always, but I found myself thinking more fondly of their older records while "Circles" was playing.
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