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Whenever I hear a bassline that I like, I just kind of freeze and tune everything else out. A great bassline can stop me in my tracks. That's what happened when I hit play on Spacemoth's new single "Do We Exist?" The weirdly funky little bounce of a bassline is the first thing that we hear, and it goes right into an extremely fun psych-pop song with an off-kilter, krautrock-inspired rhythmic sensibility. If you want to grab my attention, come up with a bassline like that one.
Spacemoth is the solo project of Maryam Qudus, an Oakland producer and engineer who has worked with people like Toro y Moi and SPELLLING. Qudus released her first Spacemoth album No Past No Future in 2022. She produced La Luz's very cool 2024 album News Of The Universe, and then she joined that band as a touring member when they took the record on the road. While touring with La Luz, Qudus started work on Inward Eye, the new Spacemoth album that she'll release this summer. The project is inspired by the work that Qudus did digitizing her family's old VCR tapes, causing her to flash back to the childhood self that she saw onscreen.
"Do We Exist?" is the first song on Inward Eye, and Qudus says that working on the track helped her figure out the record's sonic concept: "Creating drum parts, bass lines and sequences that coexist tightly, loop around and morph as the song goes on. How tightly wound those parts intertwine and loop together connects to how tightly wound life can be and how we’re constantly running in these little circles." Below, check out director Hannah Lew's psychedelic cut-and-paste "Do We Exist?" video and the Inward Eye tracklist.
TRACKLIST:
01 "Do We Exist?"
02 "Internet Fantasy"
03 "Paper Cup"
04 "Telepathic Butterflies"
05 "North Star"
06 "The Universe Next Door"
07 "Cloud Of Echoes"
08 "Flower Memory"
09 "A Photograph Replaced My Mind"
10 "In The Garden"
Inward Eye is out 6/26 on Greenway.
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