Moaning Moaning Album

Moaning Moaning Album

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Saw this band live in St Paul. Such a great show. A sort of 21st century Joy Division.

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Don't Go

02:51

video

Tired

03:12

video

Artificial

03:32

video

Close

02:54

Does This Work for You

03:57

The Same

03:43

For Now

02:46

Useless

03:42

Misheard

03:39

video

Somewhere in There

03:24

Moaning is a band defined by its duality. The abrasive post-punk trio comprised of LA DIY veterans, Sean Solomon, Pascal Stevenson, and Andrew MacKelvie, began nearly a decade after the three started playing music together. Their impassioned debut album comes born out of the member’s experiences with love and distress, creating a sound uniquely dark and sincere. Although the band is just breaking out of their infancy, Moaning’s sleek and cavernous tone emphasizes the turmoil of the era they were born into. One where the endless possibility for art and creation is met with the fear and doubt of an uncertain future.

Solomon, Stevenson, and MacKelvie initially met as teenagers while growing up in the San Fernando Valley, and immediately developed a kinship through Los Angeles’s local music scene. The three began regularly frequenting DIY institutions like The Smell and Pehrspace, eventually selling out dozens of their own shows at both venues with their first few bands. Moaning’s conception came when Solomon sent Stevenson and MacKelvie the first demo for “Don’t Go,” setting the tone for the impulsive songwriting that would follow. The three fleshed out Solomon’s primitive recordings, adding in MacKelvie’s heavy syncopated drumming, and Stevenson’s melodic driving bass and synth parts, capturing each member’s personality in their sparse and fuzzed out tracks. Like many of their previous collaborative projects, Moaning forces pain up against pleasure, using the complexity of personal heart break to inform the band’s conflicted sound. The band chose the moniker Moaning, admiring the ambiguity the name held, and hoping to reference both an intimate wail and an anguished scream.

The band’s homemade video for an early, home-recorded version of “The Same” caught the attention of Alex Newport, a seasoned engineer and producer who had previously worked with At The Drive-In, Bloc Party, and the Melvins. With Newport, Moaning began working on the tracks that would make up their self-titled release, employing a lush, open ended production quality that had never been at the band’s disposal. Tracks like “Artificial” stand out among the recordings, where Moaning used the studio’s recourses to take their frantic live arrangement and give it the intensity merited by Solomon’s lyrics.

As a whole, Moaning drifts from sentimental to catastrophic, hiding meek and introspective lyrics within powerful droning dance songs, giving sonic nods to some of the band’s musical heroes like, New Order, Broadcast, and Slowdive. The band’s youthful attitude is met with the weight of topics like loss, routine, and mental health, reflecting the anxiety towards the status quo that much of their generation faces today. Where many young bands take years to find their footing as writers and performers, Moaning has built up a confidence in sound and vision from the ten years of playing basements, bars, and ballrooms together in their previous projects. Yet, even with their polished exterior, Moaning continues to make the sacrifice of deeply personal anecdotes and emotions to their audience for the benefit of their craft.

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It’s so hard to express in a mere 500 characters how much I love this album and how much it means to me. These songs have really gotten me through the toughest stuff I’ve gone through in a long time. Sometimes all we need is some empathy and “Deceiver” has done it’s fair share of that. “Horsehead” and “For The Guilty” especially… I say without a doubt, one of my favorite albums of all time. So excited to see what this band continues to whip up! Artistic ADHD
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Every track of this awesome album is absolute PERFECTION, sincerely a mexican fan, Love You Guys! dosdos
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simply perfect. Danny Ndelko may be one of the most important songs this country has in these dark days.

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The debut full-length by Los Angeles trio Moaning is an alarmingly focused set of tense, bitter post-punk tunes born from years of busted relationships and emotional distress.
Moaning’s most impressive achievement on their self-titled debut LP is stamping their own authority on abrasive post-punk and frantic anthems for a frazzled youth.
‘Moaning’ is the sound of three individuals feeling their way through these uncertain times with an album that’s kept on a short leash.
Their first offering accomplishes what it sets out to in a way post-punk fans fearing stagnation will appreciate. As old favourites veer off in new directions or the intensity of their output fades, young newcomers like Moaning are a welcome addition to the genre.
Moaning show flashes of brilliance on their debut full-length. Ultimately however, they’re let down by a lack of dynamism, drowned in their own fuzz and an absence of ideas.
For every aspect of Moaning’s sound, you’re immediately put in mind of a band who’ve recently done it better.
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Don't Go
Tired
Artificial
Close
Does This Work for You
The Same
For Now
Useless
Misheard
Somewhere in There

When a record makes you feel, it’s pretty spectacular. ‘Moaning’ is a record that not only does that, but captures an entire generation’s angst and fears into one devastating bottle, finding the best way out of the dark is to scream in its face.
On most tracks, loud choruses and quiet verses and bridges abound, but this lack of subtlety on the dynamics front is paralleled by frontman Sean Solomon’s knack for hooks.
Their precarious perch - straddling the ridge that separates shoegaze from post-punk - results in too many of their melodies and hooks being suffocated by the sheer density of the walls of noise that Moaning are all too happy to build.
Nothing new here for the most part but still an enjoyable listen if you're into post post? post punk. I dig
Its mindless post punk but it's done pretty well.

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Moaning Format: Audio CD

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