Moon Duo – Circles

Moon Duo – Circles (Sacred Bones)

Moon Duo’s titular twosome of Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada are partners on and off stage who relocated from the bustling psych scene of San Francisco to Colorado’s Rocky Mountains prior to releasing their groovy 2011 album, Mazes. Started as a side project of Ripley’s main band, Wooden Shjips, the Duo has since earned its fair share of praise with songs built on a hypnotically repetitive foundation of organ, fuzzy guitar and simple percussion. Their new album, Circles, was inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay of the same name, whose first line goes, ‘The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.’ If you dug their previous work, then I’m guessing your turntable will see this album repeated without end, too.

By Carly Blair