Daily Non-K-Pop Spotlight: “Wet Moon” by Piano Shoegazer

https://open.spotify.com/track/5nDEcvLoTQa6lsceQ5xpqX?si=3be3945b7bdd474d

 

You can’t tell if you’re in a dream or not; the world seems to be simultaneously spinning and frozen; a night time street lies wet after rain, but holds no danger, just an odd, gnawing sense of dread that you can’t place. These are the sorts of scenes that “Wet Moon” conjures up. The whole song is this wet, liminal, synth-based creeping track that is equal parts satisfyingly calm and disturbingly alien. A single synth ostinato plays through the whole piece, giving the track an odd sense of beauty and familiarity before it begins to distort and is crushed into oblivion. The entire track detunes, and it’s like the room you’re standing has suddenly rotated on its side without you noticing, leaving you more disoriented than before. But through it all, there is the same riff, always there as a safe spot to return to.

We’ve covered Piano Shoegazer a few times here, but we just cannot get enough of his ethereal, larger than life sound design and unusual approach to music. If you're interested in listening to something like you’ve never heard before, check out “Wet Moon'' and the rest of Sisyphus Happy.

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