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Review: 'Moon, Ernest'
'Skip To Malloo'   

-  Label: 'Bandcamp/I-tunes'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '15.6.22.'

Our Rating:
When I saw the cover art and album title of Skipping To Maloo by Ernest Moon I had an image in my head, that the album was going to be a modern day Nolans or Dollar, with an album of songs to dance and romance too, something upbeat and poppy, I couldn't have been further away, as this is dark downbeat and downtrodden heartbreakers to drink your sorrows away too. Ernest Moon are a duo from Liverpool of Steven Moran and Brian Murphy the album was recorded at Ark recording Studios by Steve Powell and Rory Ballantyne.

The album opens with the dark blues of Taloola Ray who is this bands equivalent of Tallulah Bankhead in terms of just how besotted they are with her, how hard they will try to get her attention, an into her bed, the Klezmer inflected violin feels rather sleazy.

Unkind has hushed vocals and a less depressed Tindersticks style sound, as we find out just how Unkind life has been in this case, this is an elegy to the horrors that went on.

Some Tea is a slow shuffling jazzy rap in a Gomez style with some good wobble bits to aid the seduction and sultry shenanigans depicted.

They then take a trip to The Cotswold's in what sounds like a quite jaunty charabanc, as they ask someone what they did over a weekend in the Cotswold's, while almost sounding like the Jayhawks, I can't believe they didn't make it to Chedworth, as they sing about Evan Dando and other things.

Maybe We Can Love is a slow desperate seduction to ask if he can have one more go round with someone, he appears to love more than they love him, this is late night drinking too much red wine, sitting in the gloom, getting all dewy eyed at the memory of the last time he saw you.

She Forgot Her Kiss Goodbye is a sad and sorry tale as the title suggests, he's at home bemoaning and wailing about how he didn't even get a kiss goodbye, as they spilt up and she moved someplace a bit happier than his place, leaving him about ready to drown his sorrows even further.

Champion Stupid ought to be said with loads of spite and bile in a thick scouse accent as a bitter aside to the idiot you want gone, but this delivers its spite and bile like treacle slow sticky and a bit down home.

The album closes with Big Wow both the clean and dirty versions, this is a good drunken scouse blues for some guys who are out on the lash once more, from the sounds of it going in some of the bars we avoided like the plague in Liverpool while there last year, but this has a cheeky grin to it and all sorts happening to some right dodgy geezers trying to make a better life for themselves.

Find out more at https://ernestmoon.bandcamp.com/album/skipping-to-maloo-2 https://www.facebook.com/Ernestmoonmusic/





  author: simonovitch

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