Moonsicles

Moonsicles is a band from Austin, Texas, who play instrumental music in an elusive style. Sometimes it could be Swamp New Age, other times Celestial Metal. Often it's a score to an incoherent film whose characters are lost, deprived, and delirious with hallucinations of miracles and monsters. Their songs are spare, lonely, pensive, inventive, gorgeous soundlands for the human ear to roam. Moonsicles formed from some of Austin’s most provocative bands. Guitarist Aaron Russell (The Weird Weeds) distills melodies until they are a frame of some smoldering behemoth; bassist Lindsey Verrill (The Weird Weeds, Dana Falconberry, Some Say Leland, McMercy Family Band) thwacks out megalodon throbs of bottom end and smites with shimmering frequencies; percussionist Carolyn Cunningham (Pillow Queens, Woven Bones) deconstructs rhythms with a hummingbird's nimbleness; and keyboardist Sheila Scoville (Ichi Ni San Shi, Suspirians, No Mas Bodas) makes joyful, transcendent, insect-like noises. Together they play meditative instrumentals for the mind's every mood and color. Swamp new age. Celestial metal. Spare, inventive, lonely, minimal, pensive, gorgeous soundlands for the human ear to roam.