Post-rock
Blueneck released “Moonlighting” on 10 July digitally and on 14 August physically, ten years after “The Outpost”. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Duncan Attwood has now explained the reason for the delay in an interview with Louder.
Recording began a year after the previous album came out and was meant to be released two or three years later. First, Mat Sampson’s wife, the band’s longtime producer, fell seriously ill; she recovered. Then the pandemic hit, which made working remotely impossible. And finally, as the vocals were being finished, Attwood had a stroke.
“I had a proper stroke, and that obviously threw everything off again,” he says. Asked what made him decide to finish it, he answers: “If we don’t put it out now, I could die and these tracks would never be heard. And I have a feeling they’re pretty good.”
Asked how he feels now that it’s out, he answers with one word: “If I had to pick one, it would be relief.”
The band is from Bristol, and Attwood has run it with Richard Sadler since the beginning, more than twenty years ago. “Moonlighting” is eight tracks, self-released by the band, with a limited physical run distributed by Burning Shed. Attwood says nothing about what comes next.
Text by Marçal Bonastre