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Album Review: Luneworks

26 March 2016

By Oisin

It’s been a long time coming, but Irish producer Jack Colleran (who goes under the moniker MMOTHS) has released his debut album Luneworks. Luneworks is full of experimental electronica, complete with indecipherable lyrics, robotic synths, and fuzzy shoegaze influence.

The music within Luneworks flows like an entity, straying from and then returning to its core: ambience. The tracks tend to develop on each other, meaning it is definitely worth listening to the complete album rather than trying to pick out individual moments. Underpinning the album is a sense of wonder and sadness; the formless voice questions but never seems to be answered.

Tracks such as ‘You’ and ‘Naoko Pt. 1’ are half soundscape, half song, as MMOTHS shows off his control over the different psychedelic synths, while ‘Deu’ and ‘Eva’ use club-friendly drum beats to create a distinctive nocturnal sound.

As the title Luneworks itself suggests, MMOTHS wrote and recorded many of the tracks without daylight. And so this solves any difficulty placing the music: this album belongs to the night.

Top tracks: ‘You’, ‘Eva’, ‘1709’.

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