ARTHUR MOON

On June 1, Brooklyn-based avant-pop artist Arthur Moon will release their new album Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! Side B via the newly launched Switch Hit Records and a limited edition, opaque red LP release through Vinyl Me Please which will also include 2021's Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! Side A.

Arthur Moon is the moniker of Lora-Faye Åshuvud, who lives and works in Brooklyn, where they were raised. Åshuvud takes an intuitive and unusual approach to composition, melding pop, electronic, and experimental sensibilities to make music that is as unpredictable and playful as it is intricate and controlled. 

Arthur Moon has shared "Ghost Ranch" the first track to be released from Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! Side B.  The song is streaming now on all digital platforms for any playlist shares. 

On the single Lora-Faye Åshuvud says:

“I wrote 'Ghost Ranch' while staring at a photo I had taped to my wall of Georgia O’Keeffe sitting in the back of a truck in the desert looking through a piece of swiss cheese. I was thinking a lot about the way she used the holes in sun-bleached animal bones to contextualize the vastness of the sky as a negative space in her paintings–death as the thing that grounds us against the gauzy, open space of living. Later, I found out this 1976 quote from her: ‘I was the sort of child that ate around the hole in the doughnut saving the hole for the last and best. So, probably—not having changed much—when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones—what I saw through them—particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world.’”

The forthcoming Arthur Moon album is the second half of a backwards A side/B side collection, which Åshuvud says they’re “cheekily calling the B side, but this second side actually has all the songs we think of as ‘hits.’”

In addition to producing their own music, Åshuvud also produces and remixes for other artists (9m88, Kaki King, Oh Land). They collaborate on the Arthur Moon project with Cale Hawkins (Quincy Jones, Raveena), Martin D. Fowler (a composer for This American Life), Dave Palazola (Sinkane) and Aviva Jaye (Dessa, Emily King).