The music of Lo Moon has a natural ability to transport the listener to far away places without any physical movement, and that remains well intact on their cinematic new single “Stop.” But the Los Angeles band’s forthcoming sophomore album, A Modern Life, out February 25 via Strngr Recordings/Thirty Tigers, is firmly rooted in the here and now.
“It’s about survival,” says frontman Matt Lowell. “Navigating through all that’s thrown at us. Maintaining who we are and where we want to be. Music itself has been so powerful for us in our own survival, it can change everything in an instant. As a band, we’ve got a lot of reverence for it and strive for it. We don’t take it for granted.”
And we don’t take Lo Moon for granted. Given all we’ve endured over the past two years, and the frequency of which we’ve daydreamed off to other places to assume some sort of emotional connection, what we need now is an album to give us some assurances of the reality right in front of us. Begin that journey nowhere with “Stop” below, and catch Lo Moon when they play Sonia in Cambridge on May 26.
