Moaning: CD

Moaning will release their impassioned self-titled debut worldwide through Sub Pop. The 10-track album, featuring Dont Go along with highlights Artificial, The Same, and Misheard, was recorded and engineered by Alex Newport in Los Angeles.

Moaning is a band defined by its duality. The abrasive, post punk trio comprised of Sean Solomon, Pascal Stevenson, and Andrew MacKelvie, began nearly a decade after they met in L.A.s DIY music scene. Their debut album comes born out of the members experiences with love and distress, creating a sound uniquely dark and sincere. Although the band is just breaking out of their infancy, Moanings 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.

The trio 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. Solomon recalls, after a brief hiatus from playing together, Moanings conception came when he sent Stevenson and MacKelvie the first demo for Dont Go, setting the tone for the impulsive songwriting that would follow.

The three fleshed out Solomons primitive recordings, adding in MacKelvies heavy syncopated drumming, and Stevensons melodic driving bass and synth parts, capturing each members 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 heartbreak to inform the bands conflicted sound. The band eventually landed on the apt moniker Moaning, admiring the ambiguity the name held and hoping to reference both an intimate wail and an anguished scream.

Moaning will release their impassioned self-titled debut worldwide through Sub Pop. The 10-track album, featuring Dont Go along with highlights Artificial, The Same, and Misheard, was recorded and engineered by Alex Newport in Los Angeles. Moaning is a band defined by its duality. The abrasive, post punk trio comprised of Sean Solomon, Pascal Stevenson, and Andrew MacKelvie, began nearly a decade after they met in L.A.s DIY music scene. Their debut album comes born out of the members experiences with love and distress, creating a sound uniquely dark and sincere. Although the band is just breaking out of their infancy, Moanings 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. The trio 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. Solomon recalls, after a brief hiatus from playing together, Moanings conception came when he sent Stevenson and MacKelvie the first demo for Dont Go, setting the tone for the impulsive songwriting that would follow. The three fleshed out Solomons primitive recordings, adding in MacKelvies heavy syncopated drumming, and Stevensons melodic driving bass and synth parts, capturing each members 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 heartbreak to inform the bands conflicted sound. The band eventually landed on the apt moniker Moaning, admiring the ambiguity the name held and hoping to reference both an intimate wail and an anguished scream.