Dublin's Martina and the Moons are back with a track that won't be hushed. Their most recent single, "Laundry Mat," is a hot, charged-up alt-rock anthem that electrifies the mundane with searing urgency.
After they release "Baby Turtle" in May, the four-piece Martina Moon vocals/guitar, Sarah Morgan guitar, Ruby Levins bass, and Zahira Ellis drums get even more real with their mix of electrifying energy matched with no-bullshit storytelling. Recorded with Ruadhri Cushnan and Elise Molléat at Camden Recording Studios in Dublin, the song plays as both wide open and tightly wound, a push-pull that, much like our contemporary moment, is a paradox.
Martina Moon herself describes the song's inspiration as a scene in which she stared down a washing machine, following news of a domestic violence murder in her hometown. "Laundry Mat" is about that urgent feeling and helplessness, it's a wake-up call to stop sleepwalking through life, she says. It's the juxtaposition of the everyday and the terrifying, intimate and universal, that gives the song its sting.
The track pulsates with insistent drums, cutting guitars, and Martina's vocals part weary, part defiant, surging over the noise like a clarion call. Angry, but never despairing, "Laundry Mat" rises up and outward as a relief anthem that alchemizes isolation into community and numbness into flames.
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