Moonwalks – Western Mystery Tradition [CLEAR VINYL IMPORT] – New LP

sounds like circa 1968 surfacing, the version of that year that still had plenty of 1966 intact in the sounds and impacted into the grooves, from places so far behind the times, that they were ahead of their time, especially from the cold climates and peninsula lands of the rust belt in the late 1960s...acid rock with two feet on the ground, skull floating on a tether in outer space...reminding me of urban two-stories isolated in the frozen envelope of especially harsh michigan winters, those houses in the late 1970s where I first deeply explored the music of the 1960s, old 8-tracks and record collections of bikers living downstairs (they were so old...I'm twice their age now), while blasting off with the magic of ingesting doses of O.Z's of psilocybin fungi just to see how much a human being could take, blasting off to outer space and actually wandering off alone sometimes down the street to lay in the snow outside the abandoned mental hospital just to watch the snow fall and wonder if this was it and I could avoid becoming an adult...but I shouldn't be surprised to find it was more than those memories that made me think of those environments when I listened to this, as the music on this album comes from places that sound quite similar...the envelope of michigan winters making inside of old buildings erasing the space between decades...the music maybe somewhere between artists that came from the same era but were so different, some weird spaces between tommy james and mc5...blue cheer and donovan...the doors and frijid pink...early pink floyd and early alice cooper...stones and the stooges...quicksilver and the seeds...the byrds and the standells...  -- winch



'"‘Western Mystery Tradition’ is the third studio album from Detroit, MI via Brooklyn, NY outfit Moonwalks and is due for release May 26th via Fuzz Club. The album was produced by Mattiel’s Jonah Swilley and recorded at Detroit’s acclaimed (and rumored haunted) Masonic Temple with Bill Skibbe in a lodge belonging to the Free Masons’ Detroit chapter.  'conceived in the winter amidst a polar vortex in Detroit, Michigan,'

Moonwalks recall of the record’s origins: 'in between touring, we lived together in a house on the west side that lacked a working stove and had no power in half of the building. The band - trapped indoors due to temperatures in the negatives and massive amounts of snow - drew inspiration from our isolated state amidst a bleak Michigan winter.' Moonwalks consists of Kerrigan Pearce (drums), Jacob Dean (guitar), and Kate Gutwald (bass). Originating in Detroit's DIY scene, the trio started out playing in warehouses and makeshift venues across the city. Since then, they’ve gone on to tour extensively throughout North America and Europe supporting acts like The Murlocs, Metric, Julian Casablancas & The Voidz, Thee Oh Sees, The Liminanas, and The Mystery Lights."