Moon Ate the Dark :: Molt and Grow (Brian)

Last year, Moon Ate the Dark presented itself with a stellar, self-titled debut album. It impressed everyone who heard, including the proprietor of tiny, tasteful Brian Records, who was lucky enough to receive this very positive answer to his request that the duo record something for his label.

At a mere three and four-odd minutes, pianist Anna Rose Carter’s playing is so charismatic and characterful it is difficult to determine whether Christopher Bailey did any of his usual electronic accenting at all, until you realize that the subway drone arching over “Verse Porous Verse” is his. Carter plays precise, repetitive Philip Glassian patterns with the hyperreal clarity of a time-lapse nature documentary. “Sand That Remembers the Rock it Once Was” is, as its title plainly announces, more reflective, more sedate, a little doleful, a lot alone.

Molt and Grow is available on Brian.