Moonshake Eva Luna (Deluxe Edition) 2LP (Blue Vinyl)

Too Pure are excited to put Moonshake's debut album, Eva Luna, back in print and will release a deluxe edition remastered from analogue ½" tape on double blue vinyl. This reissue contains 19 tracks, which equal the album's original 10, the non-LP three-song single "Secondhand Clothes," the two B-sides from the "Beautiful Pigeon" single and four tracks from a November 1992 John Peel session. The release also includes an eight-page, full-color booklet. Moonshake was formed in 1991 by David Callahan (vocals, guitars, samplers), formerly of The Wolfhounds and New York musician Margaret Fiedler (vocals, guitars, samplers).

Eva Luna really is one hell of a ground-breaking record, and it stands resolutely alone among all of the albums released in 1992 as no other band has managed to create anything remotely similar before or since. It really is a unique album with few equals.

...Eva Luna is bursting with ideas and tension; dissonant instrumental lines careen off of both noisy samples and spacey dream pop textures, resting on a bed of hypnotic dub bass grooves and deliberate, deeply funky percussion. Just as exciting as the seemingly alien soundscapes is the precarious coalition between singers and songwriters Dave Callahan and Margaret Fiedler, who weave their divergent songwriting and performance approaches into something of a double-sided personality. Callahan delivers his tales of despairing cynicism and rage over modern urban life with theatrical growls and nasal wails, while Fiedler's hushed murmurs and understated purr belie the aggression lurking under her songs' often nightmarish psycho-sexual dramas. Above all, Eva Luna's sound collages are dark and edgy, regardless of whether their overall tone is mellow or furious; the album's dense layers of sonic detail and the ebb and flow between Callahan and Fiedler's contrasting songwriting styles make it a richly inventive, endlessly fascinating listen - and unfortunately the only full-length album of its kind in the group's oeuvre.