Singer-songwriter Francie Moon is exactly what you might think of when you hear “free spirit.” Always traveling in her well worn van, Moon has gigged in every nook and cranny, bar and coffee shop in the continental U.S. With a prolific amount of releases to her credit since adopting the moniker in 2013, Francie Moon (real name Melissa Lucciola) has expanded to a full fledged band and is set to follow up on her celebrated, American Songwriter-backed self-titled EP released in September 2016.
On February 15th Francie Moon will release the follow-up to her EP with New Morning Light, a short but sweet collection of songs, and today we are excited to premiere it on Glide. The collection shows that Moon does not like to fill an album with gratuitous tracks, choosing instead to cut straight to the point with her very best (and loudest) material, which explains why this EP is so trim. The title track is a punchy nugget of garage rock with surf guitar shredding and vocals that are equal parts vicious and elated. From there the band jumps into the frenetic groover “Sittin’ In The Middle”, with Moon’s punk sensibilities sitting front and center. The EP comes to a close with “Present Tense”, an eerie, straightforward song that brings to mind early Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. Ultimately New Morning Light accomplishes exactly what it is intended to do, which is leave the listener craving more of what Francie Moon is conjuring up in New Jersey.
Francie Moon sums up the album as a whole when talking about the lead single “Present Tense”:
“I wrote (“Present Tense”) while living in Easton, PA in my friend Josh’s jam room above a nail salon in the heart of the city. There was a huge wall of amps and endless musical toys, lights, art supplies, and freedom. Easton is a weird little city that I love with a lot of jazz, art, and sketchiness. I became very inspired one week by this wild combination and wrote many songs and this was one of them. I believe this song is a message about the journey of finding yourself and also being patient and loving with yourself when you’re getting back on track with who you are. A lot of people get caught up in the past and in the future, but this is about forgetting all that and just letting yourself be yourself, happy and free in the moment. I think when you finally let yourself feel that peace and freedom of being here now, fear and uncertainty usually wash away and sometimes doors even start to open for the future you were really dreaming of anyway. It’s so good and important to feel good and feel ourselves, and I think we can do that by not judging ourselves harshly, packing light when it comes to what we hold on to inside and by paying attention to and following the call of what we really love. Easier said than done sometimes, but at least we’re all figuring life out together, all on the same sea, just different boats.”
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The album release show is Feb 15th at Index Art Center in Newark, NJ. Pre-order the album HERE.
Photo credit: Avtar Khalsa
