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Limited Edition CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Tried and true jewel case mode featuring additional gorgeous drawings by Ethan Barretto as well as a lyric insert and Oranj sticker. Edition of 50 (but 35 of those are out with Moo on tour)
Includes unlimited streaming of Grand Theft Auto - EP
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At recent shows, Portland trio Moo has taken to bringing a sheet of poster board listing somewhere around 50 song titles, representing most—but somehow not all—of the songs the trio have written collaboratively since forming at the tail end of last year. By the end of one of Moo’s performances, which typically involve homemade costumes and span a consistently electrifying hour and a half, they may have been able to get through about a quarter of the songbook that they’ve racked up in (I can’t stress this enough) only six months or so. Only three appear on their first official EP, Grand Theft Auto, but the songs chosen are perfect points of entry into Moo’s singular world. Olivia Lyon, Amanda Berlind, and Johnny Rezende-Shalom, all accomplished instrumentalists (guitar, piano, and drums respectively and usually), demonstrate remarkable range on just these songs. Oscillating between horny cowboy romp and winking torch song, Lyon’s “I Wanna Be Your Pony” is an early bet for signature Moo tune. Its lyrical double-entendres straddle poignance and hilarity (“I’m not like a melody / You don’t just play me on the tip of your tongue / If you’re comin’ in, I need to take your gun”) with the grace of a true-blue “sensitive cowpoke.” No less delightful is “Animals,” written and sung by Berlind with warmhearted candor. When the whole group’s shouted refrain “You better believe I cried my eyes out!” erupts into full-on animal screeching, heartbreak giving way to exuberant goofiness, it’s hard not to feel glad that these three have found each other as friends and collaborators. The EP closes with the comparatively downcast “Southern Breeze,” with Lyon evoking a mournful cabaret star in the dim candlelight of a saloon as Berlind’s piano plinks away softly. Moo is the rare new band that truly stumps the comparison-hunter; we can hear a bit of the bubbly psychedelia of old Elephant 6, maybe Slapp Happy in their surefooted theatricality, hungover country Nancy & Lee-style… but that may just grasping at straws with music this out-of-time. The fact is that Moo is a band of many hats (some of which are indeed cow-patterned), with this short but promising release offering a mere hint at the vibrant and multifaceted musical world they’re well underway in building.
credits
released May 6, 2022
Moo is Olivia Lyon (guitar/vocals), Amanda Berlind (piano/vocals), and Johnny Rezende-Shalom (drums)
Mixing, mastering, and pedal steel guitar (1, 3): Skyler Pia
Art: Ethan Barretto
Lettering: Amanda Berlind
Additional layout: Grace Daenen
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