San Diego dream pop outfit moondaddy shares new single/video, "Bystander"
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Today the band moondaddy shares the new single "Bystander," as well as an official music video for the track, which premiered earlier this week on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic with Novena Carmel.
San Diego’s moondaddy is on a mission to find light amid the dark. The analog-obsessed dreampop project helmed by singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Cara Poticker meets the haze of existence with a kaleidoscopic sound that provides peace even (especially) when all else feels like chaos. Deploying glistening guitar, gauzy synths, dulcet vocals, and poetic observations, moondaddy leans into the fuzziness between people, things, and sounds — even literally, as they eschew digitalia in favor of perfectly imperfect sonics.
For 2024’s Lightwave Lightwave EP and the upcoming Dove Tapes LP, the band recorded live to tape with producer/engineer Manuel Calderon (Beach House, Animal Collective) at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas. The music was then mastered directly to lacquer by Paul Gold (Grizzly Bear, Songs: Ohia) at Salt Mastering.
That mix of attention to detail and organic connectivity is viscerally felt on Dove Tapes single “Bystander,” which sonically nods to Lush and likeminded 90s acts while carrying the listener through musical moments of earthly ache and heavenly bliss. Through impressionistic verse, Cara illustrates a particular sort of love-derived pain: “Darling are you coming to me soon? / I wait like a dove on a live wire / Letting electricity form plumes that fall on the bystander.”
Born in the eerie quiet of the pandemic, moondaddy embraces the maxim that the only certainty in life is uncertainty — a welcome sentiment, it seems. Cara’s 2023 debut LP, Poet Lies, (Volar Records, with sold-out vinyl variants on Wax Mage), swirled shoegaze, dreampop, and trip-hop to entrancing effect and lifted the band to bigger stages. They’ve since headlined tastemaking SD venues like The Casbah, gone on a sold-out tour with DeVotchKa, and opened for acclaimed peers like Beabadoobee, Peel Dream Magazine, and King Hannah. Capturing their transcendent live energy, Lightwave Lightwave laid the foundation for moondaddy’s most immersive and expressive work yet: Dove Tapes, coming out later this year.
TOUR DATES
July 2 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
July 9 - Los Angeles, CA - Gold Diggers
Aug 14 - San Francisco, CA - The Battery
Sept 27 - Los Angeles, CA - Haze Fest at Non Plus Ultra
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