Floridian Alt-Metal quartet MOODRING will be releasing their debut album Stargazer on 10 June 2022 via UNFD.
An album soaked and splattered with shades of crimson, black and blue, Stargazer explores themes of pain and loss and sex and addiction, as well as love and death against a gloriously patchwork musical backdrop.
Pre-release single ‘Disintegrate‘ pairs spacious beauty with existentialist lyricism and a marching drum-beat that carries a pronounced melancholy, whereas ‘Constrict‘ sets a quest for truth within toxic spirals to a soundtrack of pummelling immediacy.
Vocalist Hunter Young who co-produced the new record at his home studio, The Swamp Sound, alongside collaborator Austin Coupe commented: “We were excited to explore deeper themes and different aspects of our band throughout the full length. The album dives into our pool of influences unabashedly but resurfaces as its own entity. Each song was written with personal meaning and multiple themes, whilst remaining ambiguous and open enough for listeners to relate in their own way.”
Alongside the album announcement, MOODRING recently unleashed the third single from Stargazer in the shape of the thick, pulsing ‘SYNC.wav.’ The latest track is a slow-burning crush that typifies the contrast which lays at the core of the album and its creators.
“The intention of SYNC.wav was to create something that was blatantly erotic but expressed through one of the more crushing and heavy sides of the album,” Hunter revealed. “It describes the moment you start falling for someone or something, the intoxicating romantic aura of it all. But on the flipside, it also addresses a human tendency to drown in that very same romance. It’s about losing yourself completely, for better and worse.”
Elsewhere, the track ‘Stargazer‘ has a dreamy quality, combining the energy of a barrage of fiery comets with intervals of soft vocals like the dainty, celestial bodies of the cosmos – a track which definitely strikes duality. ‘N.I.K.E.‘ is a moody masterpiece that lures in listeners with its hypnotic ambience, suspending you in a place of silence before plummeting into a soundscape of heavy, industrial heaven. Concluding the album, ‘Xeno (Foreign Love)‘ is an undeniable banger you can’t resist to crank up – a strong, intoxicating finale and an oxymoron in itself with the track detailing a broken bond.
MOODRING‘s debut full-length album is a flawless, genre-bending gem – an atmospheric cocktail of blistering carnage and a cooler, cloudier grunge that will have you gripped.
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TRACK LISTING:
- How To Leave Painlessly
- Disintegrate
- Constrict
- Red Light Gossip
- Peel
- Stargazer
- SYNC
- N.I.K.E.
- Head in the Clouds
- Novocaine Bones
- Xeno (Foreign Love)