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Now what? Sorry, that sounds sort of aggressive. I mean, what now? (To be said in soft, excited and slightly amused tones.) It’s the only correct response to the sight of a new track by Mr MooQ making a graceful landing in the digital review pile. Because the only thing that you can expect from... Continue Reading →
You never know what you are going to get with the mercurial Mr MooQ, but you can rest assured that it is going to be something a bit special. For although The MooQster, I feel I know him well enough now to call him that, works in some fairly mainstream genres ….pop, pop-rock, electro, dance….... Continue Reading →
The thoroughly unique Mr Mooq has always covered a lot of sonic ground, from hazy West Coast vibes to jazzy deftness to exquisite, Day-Glo pop and seemingly everything in between. Are We Good? sees him working at the latter end of that spectrum, pushing some infectious pop vibes through a delicious electro-dance groove. As with... Continue Reading →
A Mr. Mooq penned song landing in the review pile is always an interesting prospect. There seem to be so few truly surprising artists left in this day and age, a time where conformity and consistency is required for the PR teams and music marketing types to be able to spot, track and even create... Continue Reading →
In the few short encounters I have had with the fabulously named Mr Mooq, he has never ceased to surprise me. Whether he is updating post-punk pop for the modern age with Double Happiness or contributing to the post-industrial dance/TED talk machinations of The New Occupants, there is always something interesting going on within his... Continue Reading →
Imagine if Frank Zappa was still with us and carving out a career for himself in the underground fringes of the alt-pop, synth-pop, industrial dance, EDM scene. Imagine that instead of offering up a warped, jarring and majestic end point of the western blues derived musical experiment, he instead drove the whole rock band ethic... Continue Reading →
I didn’t know people were still making music like this, but I’m glad they are. Double Happiness reminds me of that time when a horde of disaffected post-punks rewired the keyboards they had stolen from music shops to make apocalyptic, futuristic pop in direct defiance to the Leg Warmer and Shoulder Pad Bye Laws of... Continue Reading →