Photo: Ryan Orvis

 “…a mammoth, loudly crescendoing psychedelic dreampop noise racket par excellence.” – Jack Rabid, Big Takeover Magazine

Split Moon delivers a majestic storm of blissed-out space rock and driving shoegaze on their new release Gold-Diggers Live Session.

Produced by Dave Trumfio (Soft Kill, Built to Spill, Mekons), the performance was originally broadcast as a live stream before being released as a live album on Ghost Tower Records.

Split Moon was formed by singer/guitarist Mark Starr, veteran of SLC straight-edge pioneers Insight and Estrus Records garage punks The Gimmicks. As LEAF, they released the Nothing Seems Real EP in 2016. Tracks for the follow-up album Slow Satellite were recorded with producer Scott Holmes (of Highlands) before the original lineup disbanded.

Starr joined forces with bass player Ryan Orvis (Alex E.T.) to form a new version of the band. Now christened Split Moon, they performed at venues throughout L.A. including The Echo (for Part Time Punks’ My Bloody Valentine Nite), The Smell, and Permanent Records Roadhouse.

Hours of mind-bending jams produced a crop of new songs, which found Split Moon expanding their shoegaze/space rock wall-of-sound (early Verve and Swervedriver with a healthy dose of Pink Floyd) to include Stooges/MC5 fuzz rock, kosmiche/krautrock rhythms, and cosmic Americana.

The band released the single “Drifting Through” and reconvened to finish recording their next studio album, slated to arrive in early 2024.

““Shades” shatters like a million billion suns into a beautiful crescendo while on “Feel Free” the band really stomps down on the gas pedal and plows over trees.” – Tim Hinely, Dagger Zine

“They hoist a howling, sooty-thick, blasting, mesmeric shoegaze with space rock/psych suggestions…” – Jack Rabid, Big Takeover

“If Thee Hypnotics and Swervedriver had a baby it would be SPLIT MOON” – Larry Schemel, Death Valley Girls

Contact: ryan@ghosttowerrecords.com