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\"Moon<\/a>Moon Duo\u2019s second volume of Occult Architecture<\/i> (Sacred Bones Records) is awash with the same electro-psych space grooves that marked the first<\/a>, released in February. While that album was packaged as the dark half of this binary musical journey, Vol. 2<\/i> is the light, the rebirth, the blossoming of the spring, according to the record\u2019s press materials. With five songs clocking in at 39 minutes, it indeed feels lighter, a breezy zone-out record in which each track kind of melds into the next.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Dawn\u201d starts things off on familiar turf with fuzzy layers of guitar and synth and vocalist Ripley Johnson\u2019s stoner-ghost vocals on top of some changes reminiscent of Nirvana\u2019s \u201cAll Apologies.\u201d The seven-minute instrumental \u201cMirror\u2019s Edge\u201d is next, a warm and soulful track that makes me wonder what Morcheeba vocalist Skye Edwards is up to these days. Moon Duo makes a lot of noise for what\u2019s technically a three-piece (Johnson on guitar, Sanae Yamada on keys, and drummer John Jeffrey, who also plays with them on tour), creating washed-out textures that bring to mind Suicide, especially on the third track, \u201cSevens,\u201d and even The Legendary Pink Dots on album closer \u201cThe Crystal World.\u201d<\/p>\n

The magisterial \u201cLost in Light\u201d is my favorite, a lush and introspective bit of dream-pop the band released in March along with a trippy animated video that completes the visual story begun with \u201cCold Fear\u201d from Vol. 1<\/i>. As I was writing this review, I sent that song to a friend and trusted musical advisor, who answered with a link to \u201cDog End of a Day Gone By,\u201d by Love and Rockets, so I\u2019ll leave that here also as a point of reference for potentially interested listeners.<\/p>\n

Though it lacks the sinister dance songs and rip-rockers that marked Vol. 1<\/i>, Occult Architecture\u2019s<\/i> second half delivers on mood and ambiance. It\u2019s the kind of record that would have brought together the hippies and the goth kids in my college dorm, an efficient and satisfying psychedelic escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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