Bad Moon - NO ME MIRES (12" Vinyl-Album)

“Please put your trust in me, this isolation makes me freeze” - For their first album, after four self-released EPs, BAD MOON, founded in 2018, naturally lie down on the couch.

Singer and lyricist Joerg Willerscheidt has never been able to sing (well) about happy things. On NO ME MIRES, he, as the protagonist of the ten songs, enters the isolation of a fictional sanatorium—and largely fails.  And yet it seems as if the dark, captivating sound of the band around Andreas Brychcy, Bernhard Schrader, Frank Hunold and Jens Munzert can translate exactly this atmosphere into the music of the album like never before.

Cut it out, the over-the-top Tics and the epically dramatic All those edges, for example, revolve around the separation of mind and person and, in anticipation of Here comes the dark, which concludes the album, seem like a restless pendulum that one would rather wish to stand still than swing. 
In the stirring Go Ahead, Willerscheidt's voice fluctuates so much, as if he wanted to create an acoustic monument to all uncertainty, to the hopelessness.
And yet, cooling bass lines and walls of guitar reminiscent of early 90s indie rock repeatedly break into the predominantly dark-toned songs like wonderfully emotional flashes of light. 
With the driving, almost pop-breathing Green Stage, the dreamy Dreamshow and, last but not least, the wafting, Sparklehorse-inspired Backdrop, BAD MOON create a kind of highly melodic indie rock, but in a version that doesn't take place outside but in the labyrinth of the inner life.

Welcome to the Bad Moon Sanatorium: “Where signs are set for healing potions or poisonous properties”.