| Jack Name / Weird Moons |
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| Album: | Weird Moons | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Jack Name | Added: | Mar 2015 | |
| Label: | Castle Face Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2015-05-02 | Pull Date: | 2015-07-03 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 21 | Jun 7 | May 31 | May 24 | May 17 | May 10 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 16, 2022: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles Something About Glenn Goins, Under The Weird Moon | 4. | Aug 10, 2015: | In The Year 1000, 8000: Summer School (Session 4) Running After Ganymede | |
| 2. | Nov 29, 2016: | Magnetized Toner Running After Ganymede | 5. | Jul 06, 2015: | In The Year 1000, 8000: Summer School (Session 1) Lowly Ants | |
| 3. | Dec 18, 2015: | In The Year One Thousand, Eight Thousand: Best of 2015 [FQ1511-2] Running After Ganymede | 6. | Jun 20, 2015: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles Watcher Talk |
| Album Review |
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| Telepathic Juan Reviewed 2015-05-07 | ||
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Los Angeles’s Jack Name continues in his second album, Weird Moons, manufacturing tales of lunatic folklore. His first album was a wacky rock opera about over-medication, dimension traveling, and living in moons. The White Fence guitarist’s nonconformist approach for this second album makes him take cues from psychedelic music, krautrock, and concrete music to construct a surprisingly accessible pop album where strange, mostly quiet vocals revolt around synthesizer driven backgrounds and a good dose of eerie undertones. John Dwyer, the owner of Castle Face, the label that released the record, describes Weird Moons here: “Reminiscent of late era Can, Bruce Haack, Hans Edler, Solid Space, Dario Argento, and VHS tape … listen to this album in an egg shaped speaker chair if possible”. The perfect soundtrack to visit the Salvador Dali theatre and museum in Catalonia, Spain. RIYL: Ariel Pink, White Fence, Damaged Bug, Connan Mockasin, and, Mac DeMarco. FCC CLEAN!! Recommended Tracks: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 1. (2:39) **Werewolf Factory – Slow spacey retro-funk track. Cool distortions. 2. (4:59) *Under The Weird Moon – Low-fi synth extravaganza. Great vocals everywhere. Rocking at the beat of a late 1960’s parallel universe. 3. (3:58) **Running After Ganymede – Krautrock electro beat, creepy whispery vocals, random sounds. One of the best tracks on the album. 4. (4:35) Lowly Ants – Another strange 1970’s inspired electronic upbeat track. Something for sure. 5. (2:12) *Waiting For Another Moon – Out of space pop. Trippy track. 6. (4:14) *Watcher Talk – 1970’s Krautrock meets 1980’s industrial music. It will make Faust proud. 7. (2:16) IO – Slow tune with minimalist arrangements and a nice vocal melody. 8. (2:55) *Something About Glenn Goins – Spacey ballad with a thing for 1970’s opera rock soundtracks. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Werewolf Factory | 5. | Waiting For Another Moon | |||
| 2. | Under The Weird Moon | 6. | Watcher Talk | |||
| 3. | Running After Ganymede | 7. | Io | |||
| 4. | Lowly Ants | 8. | Something About Glenn Goins |