Each time I hear a bassline that I like, I simply sort of freeze and tune every part else out. An awesome bassline can cease me in my tracks. That is what occurred once I hit play on Spacemoth’s new single “Do We Exist?” The weirdly funky little bounce of a bassline is the very first thing that we hear, and it goes proper into a particularly enjoyable psych-pop track with an off-kilter, krautrock-inspired rhythmic sensibility. If you wish to seize my consideration, provide you with a bassline like that one.
Spacemoth is the solo challenge of Maryam Qudus, an Oakland producer and engineer who has labored with folks like Toro y Moi and SPELLLING. Qudus launched her first Spacemoth album No Previous No Future in 2022. She produced La Luz’s very cool 2024 album Information Of The Universe, after which she joined that band as a touring member once they took the file on the street. Whereas touring with La Luz, Qudus began work on Inward Eye, the brand new Spacemoth album that she’ll launch this summer time. The challenge is impressed by the work that Qudus did digitizing her household’s previous VCR tapes, inflicting her to flash again to the childhood self that she noticed onscreen.
“Do We Exist?” is the primary track on Inward Eye, and Qudus says that engaged on the monitor helped her work out the file’s sonic idea: “Creating drum elements, bass strains and sequences that coexist tightly, loop round and morph because the track goes on. How tightly wound these elements intertwine and loop collectively connects to how tightly wound life may be and the way we’re always working in these little circles.” Under, take a look at director Hannah Lew’s psychedelic cut-and-paste “Do We Exist?” video and the Inward Eye tracklist.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Do We Exist?”
02 “Web Fantasy”
03 “Paper Cup”
04 “Telepathic Butterflies”
05 “North Star”
06 “The Universe Subsequent Door”
07 “Cloud Of Echoes”
08 “Flower Reminiscence”
09 “A {Photograph} Changed My Thoughts”
10 “In The Backyard”
Inward Eye is out 6/26 on Greenway.
