Brooklyn via Boston duo Sonnymoon is a band criminally under-covered by many "cutting edge" music blogs – we wonder why. They just released their third album "The Courage of Present Times," follow up to their self-titled 2012 sophomore, which became a cult record for the rather small layer of music fans interested in that paradoxical genre known as "experimental pop." Since producer Dane Orr likes to keep hist mostly electronic arrangement at a minimum that borders on the "barely there," at least 75% of what happens in Sonnymoon’s music is centered around Anna Wise’s vocal experimentations, which constantly fluctuate between unpredictable improvisations and repeated melodic hooks, therefore creating a new interesting incarnation of pop’s proverbial "tension and release" dynamic. Check out "Grains of Friends from the latest release, streaming below.
