Lo Moon: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Dec. 5, 2018, Suraya Mohamed They drove into the NPR garage crammed into an extended cargo van, 9 feet tall, instruments and luggage crammed all the way to the ceiling. They didn t use all of that gear, but even on this mainly acoustic, strippeddown set, Lo Moon radiated a signature sound intimate and demonstrative, haunting yet uplifting, an oldfashioned rock beat under glimmering guitar and keys, overlaid with beautiful, textured vocals. Lead singer and instrumentalist Matt Lowell says this journey began 5 1, 2 years ago with Loveless, the last song in this set. He created the demo version in a basement studio in New York, moved to Los Angeles and then linked up with Crisanta Baker (guitar, bass, keyboards and backing vocals) and multiinstrumentalist and principal guitarist Sam Stewart. They spent months in a backyard shed with gear and guitars everywhere. There they learned to feed off each other, sometimes jamming on twochord drones for six hours straight without even saying a word. With the l
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