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MOAN is a Groningen band with a nucleus of guitarist Marcel and bassist André..They created walls of sound together. Nobody was able to find a secured spot with them. Enter drummer Reinee and singer Jurgen (also in Avery Plains). Finally there was more than a nucleus, so enter MOAN as you can hear it today on this four song EP.
What stayed is that wall of sound. Being in that room where the band practices is the equivalence to the title of Fischer-Z's second album: 'Going Deaf For A Living' or better hobby. The band calls it stoner rock and I agree. The music is like dragging oneself through thigh high mud. The drums are the rope towards survival. The guitars and especially the bass is a true forest of distortion. The amps always on the edge of implosion.
This EP may only be four songs long. With songs of up to 12 plus minutes the listener gets value for money. The band takes time to build up the songs, slowly but surely more elements are added until a full song is presented with Jurgen Veenstra's voice as the lighthouse light facing the storm that is pounding tons of water into the coast. A true beacon in a wilderness of noise that does confirm to the constraints of the composition when all is said and done.
I do not know if this comes recommended but when I came home with 'In Utero', Nirvana's final studio album, I put it on as loud as I used to, forgetting my just born son sleeping in his maxicosy. I knew one thing within one second, well two. The first, he was not deaf, the second that my loud playing music days were over. He's still a Nirvana fan though. MOAN is the kind of album that can be used as a test as well. Besides that, it is an intense album that shows a great many sides to the music, through all the noise, worth exploring.
Wout de Natris
You can listen to and order MOAN here:
https://audiosportrecords.bandcamp.com/album/moan
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