The Moonlandingz have announced a new EP titled This Cities Undone.
The three-track EP includes the Yoko Ono and Phil Oakey-featuring title track, which was previously available on their album Interplanetary Class Classics, a remix of that track by Brisbane quartet Confidence Man and a brand new track called ‘Dirty Red Rose’. You can listen to the whole EP above.
"I’m a big fan of Yoko’s ’70’s albums like Approximately Infinite Universe and during a late night semi-drunken recording session, I suggested to Sean Lennon – who we were working with up at his studio in upstate New York – that this crazy psychedelic freak out track that we had on the boil – but had no lyrics for – could really work with Yoko doing her thing on it," says the band’s Adrian Flanagan of the title tack. "Sean got it straight away, said that he thought it was a good idea and after that brief suggestion it was never mentioned again.
"About two months later I’m at a tiny gig in some old spoon factory in Sheffield, watching a bloke play a home made synth in a shoe box with a wind up clockwork parrot sat on his shoulder, when I get an email off Sean titled ‘MUMLANDINGZ’. In the email was a video clip of his mum doing this incredible vocal over our music. The hair on the back of my neck stood on end, her voice stirs you like the most primal of rock and roll. It’s got so much spirit, it’s proper witchcraft!"
The EP’s release comes ahead of the band’s upcoming tour of the UK which kicks off at Glasgow’s SWG3 on November 18 and finishes on November 23 at Bristol’s Trinity Centre. They’ll be stopping off in Leeds, Manchester and London between those dates. You can find details for those shows here.
This Cities Undone is out now.
