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MOON KING
This Saturday Moon King will release the second installment of the Obsession series with Obsession II out on April 20th on One Big Silence, the label of Fucked Up guitarist Mike Haliechuk. The EP is streaming now at Spin Media who describe it as "dream-pop with fangs".
Also this week, Noisey dropped "Icarus" alongside an interview with Daniel Benjamin of the band. You can read the interview below where Daniel discusses the upcoming tour, destroying microphones and interplanetary sex.
Fader also had something to say about Moon King, they premiere the powerful and unstoppable "Dreamtrap" describing it is as a "fat-snared, reverb-swimming" track.
Moon King are taking their incendiary live show across the US with Born Ruffians, all dates are below, catch them if you can!
North American Tour Dates /
04.15.13 - Great Scott - Allston, MA **
04.16.13 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY* *
04.18.13 - Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ **
04.19.13 - Big Buffalo Snow Lodge - Brooklyn, NY
04.20.13 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA**
04.21.13 - R&R Hotel - Washington, D.C. **
04.23.13 - Motorco - Chapel Hill, NC **
04.24.13 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA **
04.25.13 - Bottletree - Birmingham, AL **
04.26.13 - Spanish Moon - Baton Rouge, LA **
04.27.13 - Fatty Arbuckles - Shreveport, LA **
04.29.13 - Fitzgerald's - Houston, TX **
04.30.13 - Red 7 - Austin, TX **
05.02.13 - Lowbrow - El Paso, TX **
05.03.13 - Sail Inn - Phoenix, AZ **
05.02.13 - Lowbrow - El Paso, TX **
05.04.13 - Casbah - San Diego, CA **
05.05.13 - Detroit Bar - Costa Mesa, CA **
05.06.13 - Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA **
05.08.13 - Slims - San Francisco, CA **
05.10.13 - Star Theater - Portland, OR **
05.11.13 - Barboza - Seattle, WA **
05.12.13 - Crux - Boise, ID **
05.14.13 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO **
05.16.13 - Lincon Hall - Chicago,IL ^
05.17.13 - The Loving Touch - Fernadale, MI ^
^ with The Thermals
04.16.13 - Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY* *
04.18.13 - Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ **
04.19.13 - Big Buffalo Snow Lodge - Brooklyn, NY
04.20.13 - Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA**
04.21.13 - R&R Hotel - Washington, D.C. **
04.23.13 - Motorco - Chapel Hill, NC **
04.24.13 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA **
04.25.13 - Bottletree - Birmingham, AL **
04.26.13 - Spanish Moon - Baton Rouge, LA **
04.27.13 - Fatty Arbuckles - Shreveport, LA **
04.29.13 - Fitzgerald's - Houston, TX **
04.30.13 - Red 7 - Austin, TX **
05.02.13 - Lowbrow - El Paso, TX **
05.03.13 - Sail Inn - Phoenix, AZ **
05.02.13 - Lowbrow - El Paso, TX **
05.04.13 - Casbah - San Diego, CA **
05.05.13 - Detroit Bar - Costa Mesa, CA **
05.06.13 - Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA **
05.08.13 - Slims - San Francisco, CA **
05.10.13 - Star Theater - Portland, OR **
05.11.13 - Barboza - Seattle, WA **
05.12.13 - Crux - Boise, ID **
05.14.13 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO **
05.16.13 - Lincon Hall - Chicago,IL ^
05.17.13 - The Loving Touch - Fernadale, MI ^
^ with The Thermals
** with Born Ruffians
Links /
Moon King Official Soundcloud
Moon King Official Facebook
Follow Moon King On Twitter
One Big Silence
Moon King Official Facebook
Follow Moon King On Twitter
One Big Silence
Obsession II Tracklisting /
01. Violence
02. Dreamtrap
03. Icarus
04. Appel
05. Almost Blue
06. Glass
02. Dreamtrap
03. Icarus
04. Appel
05. Almost Blue
06. Glass
Assets:
Toronto native Daniel Benjamin and collaborator/co-conspirator Maddy Wilde have been making music together for most of their lives; as Moon King, the two singers weave dreamlike harmonies over buzz-saw guitars and electronic percussion, their live performances capturing a raw-nerve intensity that verges on ecstatic. Many of Daniel’s songs appeal to our darker subconscious desires, reveling in the embrace of fear and ego as a means of escape.
Moon King have toured with Fucked Up & Twin Sister since the release of their debut 12" EP this past summer, and are planning to release a follow-up EP Obsession II in May 2013 on One Big Silence, the label run by Mike Haliechuk of Fucked Up. Daniel has also been touring as a member of his brother Airick's project Doldrums.
