The Sign of Man is taken from the newly announced, eagerly awaited album reveal from The Moonlandingz, No Rocket Required, to be released by Transgressive Records. Listen HERE.
Seven long years after their debut, The Moonlandingz have returned. Not when we wanted them, but now that we need them: galloping in on their four horses, bareback and howling. When they first emerged from Valhalla Dale they were a semi-fictional band bringing us sticky squelchy pop songs to offer solace and punishment in the months following the Brexit vote and Trump’s first victory. Composed of Adrian Flanagan (Acid Klaus) and Dean Honer (who along with Flanagan are the Eccentronic Research Council) and Lias Saoudi (Decius, Fat White Family), The Moonlandingz conspired with Yoko Ono, Sean Ono Lennon, Rebecca Taylor, Phil Oakey and the Cowboy from The Village People to make one of the great albums of 2017, and we needed it. Interplanetary Class Classics was a dose of unreality equal to the unhinged times we were stumbling into.
”Nature left man half-finished, unresolved, alienated, lost to permanent exile, unable or unwilling to surrender even to himself…is it any wonder he grew callous?” asks Johnny Rocket (aka Lias Saoudi) on the track. ”This is a song about torpor unbound, about the relegation of love into need, about our failure to summon up ‘care’… this is a song about justice.”
Featuring Johnny Rocket disco-ka-pow-pow-ing all over any brittle ideas of bloke-ness to deeply erotic and pleasantly frantic effect, check out the video for Sign of a Man below:
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The band announce a London show at The Lexington on February 21st – tickets available via sign-up HERE.
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