Sub Pop
2006
Echoes Of The Past
About This Album
Unless you're Ian MacKaye, chances are Dead Moon are a lot more indie than you are, and they've been that way a lot longer than you to boot. Fred Cole and his wife Toody Cole formed Dead Moon with drummer Andrew Loomis in 1987, twenty years after Fred and Toody got married and 23 years after Fred made his first record with the garage band the Lords. As has been Fred Cole's habit since the mid-'70s, Dead Moon produce and engineer their own records, release most of them on their own Tombstone label, and Fred even cuts the vinyl masters himself on an ancient lathe used to make the original lacquers for the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie." While this all makes for a good story, it wouldn't matter much of the band's music wasn't any good, but thankfully that's not the case. Dead Moon play dark, passionate and gloriously primitive rock & roll that fuses the outlaw energy of punk, the aural snarl of classic garage rock, and the desolation of the blues with a lean and moody groove that cuts like a freshly sharpened bowie knife. Dead Moon have been making great records for years, but getting them out into the marketplace has not been their strong suit, and for years the band's profile has been lower than their music deserves outside of their home in the Northwest.
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