Album Review: Blood Moon Wedding – Blood Moon Wedding: An American Nightmare (Mobilization Recordings)

Legendary English punk rocker Steve Lake of Zounds and American singer Mia Dean present their anticipated duet offering, Blood Moon Wedding: An American Nightmare. Other than its availability on digital/streaming media, the Trans-Atlantic art-punk-noir duo’s album comes as a lavishly packaged vinyl two-record set with a lyric book and a limited CD on the 7th of April 2023 via Mobilization Recordings.

Blood Moon Wedding is a road trip of horrors through an alternate reality. Set in the sprawling deserts of the United States, Steve and Mia find themselves trapped in a shadow world where death and love are the only way through the gates of space and time. Exploring themes of mass murder, gun violence, and trauma bonding, Blood Moon Wedding is a dramatic commentary on the violence in American society.

Mythical, atmospheric, dramatic, and dark. That’s the simplest way to sum up the experience of entering the weird and wonderful world of Blood Moon Wedding. A world of the strange, slightly macabre, and psychedelic.

Across ten tracks, the pairing of Steve Lake and Mia Dean deliver a smorgasbord of delights that go in unexpected directions constantly. You can never predict what will come next, aside from the guarantee that it’s going to be something special. A guarantee that doesn’t seem to even make Blood Moon Wedding sweat. It’s as simple as hearing two top artists doing top work.

Some of the best moments of the entire album are when it delves deeply into the atmospheric elements and lets the story-telling take over. This is a fully-realised world and Blood Moon Wedding are the guides. It makes for a captivating experience when you can follow along. All while enjoying the eclectic blend of musical ideas.

Ideas that straddle the line of avant-garde and experimental eccentricities, blended with noir and art-punk detail. From this, Blood Moon Wedding are able to create their own sound and upend any expectation or understanding that a listener might have before they hit play. Hell, even trying to describe it in words is a struggle. It’s just so unusual, yet it is also highly addictive, and the sense of excitement that comes with the start of a new track is truly something else.

Give it a listen. Be transported to the Blood Moon Wedding’s American Nightmare and be prepared to find yourself quite enamoured by it.

Blood Moon Wedding – Blood Moon Wedding: An American Nightmare Track Listing:

1. Spell
2. Some Things Are Worth Believing
3. Wanted
4. Looking For Us
5. Murder Ballad
6. Hey Mia, Do You Remember?
7. Wild
8. Blood Moon Wedding – Part 1
9. Blood Moon Wedding – Part 2
10. Pn M2-9

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