Moon Duo Biography

Moon Duo are a psychedelic Krautrock band with chilly electronic underpinnings and drones inspired by Spacemen 3 Silver Apples and Suicide. The group formed in 2009 and began issuing releases in short order including the Love on the Sea 12 on Sick Thirst which they followed with the Killing Time EP on Sacred Bones. The album released in the spring of 2011 followed widely acclaimed performances at SXSW; the band's sound on that record focused more on tightly written (and brightly produced) songs with fixed drum machine-made motorik rhythms. The set also got the remix treatment later in the year with participation from Psychic Ills Purling Hiss and Sonic Boom to name a few. The band's release of stopgap material continued in 2014 with the live album Live in Ravenna which featured drummer John Jeffrey. After moving their home base to Portland and with Jeffrey on board the trio began recording its next album in a self-described dark basement. Mixed again in Germany by Jonas Verwijnen 2015's was the group's densest most psychedelic record to date. At the end of the year the band embarked on a lengthy European tour then returned again in 2016 for more dates. When back home in Portland they began work on their next album both at home and at the Type Foundry. was released in early 2017 then followed soon after. The first volume was intended to represent yin and the second volume yang in an effort to explore both light and darkness within their sound.

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