Album artwork for Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo
Album artwork for Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo
Album artwork for Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo

Moon Duo's third full-length LP, Shadow of the Sun, was written entirely during one of these evolving phases - a rare and uneasy rest period, devoid of the constant adrenaline of performing live and the stimulation of traveling through endless moving landscapes. This offered Moon Duo a new space to reflect on all of these previous experiences and cradle them while cultivating the album in the unfamiliar environment of a new dwelling; a dark Portland basement. It was from this stir-crazy fire that Shadow of the Sun was forged. Evolving the sound of their first two full-length records, Mazes (2011) and Circles (2012), Moon Duo - Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada - have developed their ideas with the help of their newly acquired steam engine, Canadian drummer John Jeffrey (present on the band's last release, Live in Ravenna). The unchartered rhythms and tones present on this record are reflective of Moon Duo's strive for equilibrium in this aforementioned new environment. You can hear it is the result of months of wrangling with a profound feeling of being unsettled - there are off-kilter dance rhythms, repetitive, grinding riffs, cosmic trucker boogies and even an ecstatically pretty moment. Mixing with Jonas Verwijnen in Berlin, allowed for a creative catharsis and dissolved the album’s formal technique into a cool and paradoxically sane sound of confusion.

Moon Duo

Shadow of the Sun

Sacred Bones Records
Album artwork for Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo
LP +

£22.99

Light Blue and White Galaxy

Released 29/04/2022Catalogue Number

SBR122LPC3

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Album artwork for Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo
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Light Blue and Red Galaxy

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Released 29/04/2022Catalogue Number

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Moon Duo

Shadow of the Sun

Sacred Bones Records
Album artwork for Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo
LP +

£22.99

Light Blue and White Galaxy

Released 29/04/2022Catalogue Number

SBR122LPC3

Learn more
Album artwork for Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo
LP +

£22.99

exclusive

LP+++

Light Blue and Red Galaxy

Rough Trade Exclusive
Limited to 300 copies
Released 29/04/2022Catalogue Number

SBR122LPC4

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Moon Duo's third full-length LP, Shadow of the Sun, was written entirely during one of these evolving phases - a rare and uneasy rest period, devoid of the constant adrenaline of performing live and the stimulation of traveling through endless moving landscapes. This offered Moon Duo a new space to reflect on all of these previous experiences and cradle them while cultivating the album in the unfamiliar environment of a new dwelling; a dark Portland basement. It was from this stir-crazy fire that Shadow of the Sun was forged. Evolving the sound of their first two full-length records, Mazes (2011) and Circles (2012), Moon Duo - Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada - have developed their ideas with the help of their newly acquired steam engine, Canadian drummer John Jeffrey (present on the band's last release, Live in Ravenna). The unchartered rhythms and tones present on this record are reflective of Moon Duo's strive for equilibrium in this aforementioned new environment. You can hear it is the result of months of wrangling with a profound feeling of being unsettled - there are off-kilter dance rhythms, repetitive, grinding riffs, cosmic trucker boogies and even an ecstatically pretty moment. Mixing with Jonas Verwijnen in Berlin, allowed for a creative catharsis and dissolved the album’s formal technique into a cool and paradoxically sane sound of confusion.