New Music: Moon Machine – Aether

With their debut album heading our way on the 1st of May, Moon Machine have shared the lightly coloured mysticism of Aether.

The band’s music is very singular; you can’t think of many bands that sound like this, and don’t try too hard, just go with the flow of Aether. Maybe Glass Beams and their fusion of classic Eastern musical elements with modern Western rock come closest – but even then, not quite.

Aether – known as the fifth element, a substance believed in earlier times to fill the space between objects – is well named, as the song has so much space between the vocals and the individual elements of the arrangement. The mix of psychedelia, kosmische, and stripped-down dream pop is filled with warmth and silence, the breath of the song itself. Listen to this on repeat and you’ll feel your thoughts fold in on themselves.

Says the band about the track, “Aether is about stepping away from your own ego/disassociation and acceptance.” For album news, connect with Moon Machine on Instagram. Aether and previous releases can be heard on Apple Music and Spotify.