An album of atmospheres.

Disappoints at times while still managing to provide glimpses of the pair’s powers.

[xrr rating=2.0/5]As a head music aficionado, I was ready to embrace Moon Duo’s trance oriented grooves before I heard a note. They come with San Francisco credibility and a reputation for spaced out, buzzing jams. The PR blurb quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson as an inspiration, “The eye is the first circle, the horizon which it forms is the second, and …

Moon Duo Escape Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Woodsist Records Though they call it their debut full-length, Moon Duo’s Escape contains only four songs. Multi-instrumentalist Sanae Yamada joins guitarist/singer Erik Johnson, he of San Francisco’s bad-Altamont answer to Austin’s Black Angels, Wooden Shjips, whose fuzzed-out death trip rock isn’t all that different from what Moon Duo do on Escape. Though the Shjips …