Artist: Shana Cleveland
Album: Night of the Worm Moon
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 31:17
Total Tracks: 10
Total Size: 643 MB

Tracklist:

1. Shana Cleveland – Don’t Let Me Sleep (03:20)
2. Shana Cleveland – Face of the Sun (03:29)
3. Shana Cleveland – In Another Realm (03:12)
4. Shana Cleveland – Castle Milk (01:41)
5. Shana Cleveland – Night of the Worm Moon (02:59)
6. Shana Cleveland – Invisible When the Sun Leaves (02:58)
7. Shana Cleveland – The Fireball (03:39)
8. Shana Cleveland – Solar Creep (02:17)
9. Shana Cleveland – A New Song (04:20)
10. Shana Cleveland – I’ll Never Know (03:18)

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Shana Cleveland has been beguiling listeners for years in her role as the superlative frontwoman for elastic surf rockers La Luz. Now Cleveland is evolving her sound on the new solo full-length Night of the Worm Moon, a serene album that flows like a warm current while simultaneously wresting open a portal to another dimension. As much a work of California sci-fi as Octavia Butler’s Parable novels, Night of the Worm Moon incorporates everything from alternate realities to divine celestial bodies. Inspired in part by one of her musical idols, the Afro-futurist visionary Sun Ra (the album’s title is a tip of the hat to his 1970 release Night of the Purple Moon), the record blends pastoral folk with cosmic concerns. Cleveland dreamt up this premise while living in Los Angeles, a city where as deftly explored on La Luz s recent Floating Features reality and fantasy casually co-exist. Abetting Cleveland during the recording process was a familiar gallery of co-conspirators: multi-instrumentalist Will Sprott of Shannon & the Clams, original La Luz bassist Abbey Blackwell, Goss, pedal steel player Olie Eshelman, and Kristian Garrard, who drummed on Cleveland’s previous solo effort (with then-backing band The Sandcastles), 2011’s Oh Man, Cover the Ground. But whereas that album was internal and contemplative, Night of the Worm Moon occupies a different, vibrant kind of headspace. UFO sightings, insect carcasses, and twilight dimensions are all grist for Cleveland’s restless creativity, and they and other inspirations collide beautifully on the album’s 10 kaleidoscopic tracks a spacebound transmission from America’s weirdo frontier.