The Californian-Danish dream pop purveyors Moon Panda today release their third album Dumb Luck, also sharing the record’s latest single, ‘Space Elevator’.
Recorded largely in vocalist/bassist Maddy Myers and guitarist Gustav Moltke’s home studio, with keyboardist/guitarist George Godwin producing, and Josh Cabitac behind the kit, the band handed off the nearly finished material to producer Adam Thein (Djo), with whom they worked previously on 2023’s Sing Spaceship, Sing!. The final product is their most sensuous work to date, somewhat blissed out while also tackling life’s emotional challenges.
“I see a couple of different themes to this album – the first being the creation of the art and the art itself,” states Myers. “I think the album name ‘Dumb Luck’ is more linked to the creation of the art and how we, as a band, as friends, dove into this project together and how lucky we’ve been to get the chance to keep doing this. How lucky we are to be together, working on creating something that comes from the heart. How lucky it is that we found each other and have had the great fortune of sticking together even though we’re all from different sides of the world.”
Dumb Luck is Moon Panda’s “band album”, written and recorded with Godwin and Cabitac. The title, Dumb Luck, is a partial nod to this, a reference to the pure good fortune of being able to create art with three other individuals who came together living in different parts of the globe, but somehow making it work, and coming together closer than ever before.
“There are many moments in ‘Dumb Luck’ where I let my mind take me to the possibility of losing everything that I’d built,” concludes Myers. “Losing my relationship, my creativity…and allowed myself to beg and fight for it to go back to the way it was. Cause again, that’s the thing about having a baby. You enter this new chapter and you mourn your old one for a moment. But at the same exact time you look so much forward to this new life you’ve created.”
And with Dumb Luck, Moon Panda have created their finest work yet. Purchase from Moon Panda’s official store, or listen to Dumb Luck HERE Read our review here.
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