- There's a wealth of sounds on Moon Gangs' debut EP, which is essentially ten hours of improvised source material whittled down to under 30 minutes. Although they draw on synth, drone and noise, the tracks are easier to swallow than that would imply, reined in by a knack for composition and narrative. As such, Moon Gangs sometimes feels like a study in editing, particularly at the points where different sonic worlds intersect. On "I," for instance, the focus seems to sharpen as the murk of the analogue bubblebath clears; a rhythm enters, and the track blooms from a foggy meditation into something euphoric.
Moon Gangs bears most obvious comparison to Fuck Buttons, his music treading a similar line between extreme and epic, with every sound tethered to an overarching narrative arc. The gauzy synth loops on "III" mingle with bleeps for three minutes before fading to a low drone. A rhythmic, physical dance track emerges in their wake, and a passage of hazy synths brings the EP to a close. Yet the tracks fail to move. The issue with Moon Gangs isn't the execution (which is tight) but the fact that it often sounds quite generic, with no one sound standing out from the thousands of similar ones you've heard before. It's enjoyable enough, but it falls short of the spellbinding effect Moon Gangs is shooting for.
Tracklist01. I
02. II
03. III