Band To Watch: Johnny And The Moon

Here are some phenom tracks from a project that's getting solid spins around Stereogum HQ and is sure to be of interest to any indie-Canada completists. Johnny And The Moon is the long-belabored love child of Dante DeCaro (of Hot Hot Heat and Wolf Parade fame), featuring tunes conceived after leaving Heat and occasionally reared during stints opening for Parade. Think of it as WP's pastoral younger brother, a mildly surreal folkie with less by way of experimental quirk but just as much in his arrangement and melody.

Johnny And The Moon - "Kid Heaven" (MP3)
Johnny And The Moon - "The Ballad Of Scarlet Town" (MP3)

The self-titled album was released yesterday in Canada and will see a US release in late January '07. But you can buy it now at Kill Devil Hill Records, wherever you are. And as always, there's more to listen at MySpace.

Posted at 1:56 PM in Band To Watch, MP3

5 Comments

this one's in my oink requests.

i'm waiting.

also why no new lcd up yet.

Posted by: asdf at 10/25/06 2:22 PM  | Reply
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yes! i'm not an overly patriotic canuck, but this makes me feel downright nationalistic.

Posted by: sarah at 10/25/06 2:52 PM  | Reply
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saw him play with hadji bakara and arlen thompson from wolf parade last year, are they "officialy" in the band?

Posted by: keegan at 10/25/06 4:41 PM  | Reply
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I saw him play with the wolf parade guys too. Hadji and Arlen are not in this band though.

Posted by: jsay at 10/28/06 1:06 AM  | Reply
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when dante decaro plays the harmonica and the banjo at the same time my heart goes skipppy. flipppy.

Posted by: sweet lime at 11/12/07 7:28 PM  | Reply
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