Moon Duo have always just sounded so cool. Theirs was a nihilistic, nocturnal brand of psychedelia: mechanistic krautrock rhythms, guitars overdriven into furiously combusting engines, a detached delivery that alternated between slithering and swaggering. Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada might've been influenced by the occult, but it sounded as if were writing the soundtrack to some near-future fiction of dystopian cityscapes prowled by biker gang outlaws, where it is always nighttime and there is always smoke in the air. From their early days, Moon Duo had their aesthetic down, and in some ways that can hinder a band. They know what they do and do it well; you know what they do and you either vibe with it or don't.