When Brian Eno released his game-changing debut solo LP Here Come the Warm Jets in 1974, musically he was years ahead of his time arranging and composing a brash mix of glam and pop with synth washes that would become customary in today’s DIY indie scene. Emily Moales, who performs as the indie rock adventuress Star Moales, kind of thinks so too.
“I started with the idea of wanting to make a song like ‘Needle In The Camel’s Eye’ by Brian Eno that really drives forward hard the whole time. That forward movement and the explosiveness of the dissonant piano riff are what inspired the lyrics,” says about her new track “Bloodhounds.”
Just out of high school, feeling stuck in a wasted gap year in her New Hampshire hometown before heading to college, Moales found herself in serious need of an escape. Looking around at her rural New England surroundings, the multi-instrumentalist began blurring the lush greenery of reality with that of Medieval Britain. Infusing imagery from the epic tale of King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere into intensely personal songwriting, Moales found that escape in creating the sublime Camelot. The album displays Star Moles’ ability to craft timeless yet eternally present bedroom pop.
“Bloodhounds” and Camelot were produced by Kevin Basko of Rubber Band Gun. It was my Moles’ recording in a studio and using analog equipment, as well as her first time working with a producer.
“I loved witnessing the song’s transformation during the process into a sound that exceeded the expectations I have of my own songwriting, which wouldn’t have been achieved without Kevin’s production wizardry and playing on the track,” says Moales.
Glide is premiering the video for the contagiously hummable “Bloodhounds.” Moles drops a big-hearted DIY mix that renders the fantastical imagery of glam with a crushing electro-pop wave. The stunner video with its self-professed extreme flashing and color changes, mixed atop cleverly dialed in shadow figures, is simply the bomb.
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Just out of high school, feeling stuck in a wasted gap year in her New Hampshire hometown before heading to college, Emily Moales found herself in serious need of an escape. Looking around at her rural New England surroundings, the multi-instrumentalist began blurring the lush greenery of reality with that of Medieval Britain. “I’m perpetually reading TH White’s The Once and Future King. I’ll pick it back up again every few months, and it will always resonate with what’s going on in my life,” Moales explains. Infusing imagery from the epic tale of King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere into intensely personal songwriting, Moales found that escape in creating the sublime Camelot. First released digitally in 2018 and now getting its first physical issue via Earth Libraries on TK, the record is a sterling statement of the New Hampshirite’s work as Star Moles and her ability to craft timeless yet eternally present bedroom pop gems.
