Split Moon’s debut album Slow Satellite was called “a howling, sooty-thick, blasting, mesmeric shoegaze with space rock/psych suggestions” by Jack Rabid of Big Takeover Magazine. The band has morphed through shifting lineups with a droning wall-of-sound and hazy, melodic riffs guiding each incarnation. Their new album More Cloud More Stars expands the sound to combine Stooges/MC5 fuzz rock, kosmiche/krautrock rhythms, spaced-out slowcore epics, and saturated noise pop in a seductive sonic attack that POW Magazine called “dark gaze at its finest, distorted and dense.”

Guitarist/vocalist Mark Starr, veteran of Victory Records straight-edge pioneers Insight and Estrus Records garage punks The Gimmicks, initially formed the band under the name Leaf. They released the Nothing Seems Real EP before reemerging as Split Moon for the follow-up album Slow Satellite, recorded with producer Scott Holmes (Highlands). The band reformed with a new lineup and released the Gold-Diggers Live Session, a performance originally broadcast as a live stream and produced by Dave Trumfio (Built to Spill, Soft Kill, Mekons). Split Moon released More Clouds More Stars in March 2025.

Reviews for Split Moon – More Clouds More Stars

“It’s easy to get lost in this album…This is ‘dark gaze’ at its finest, distorted and dense…”
– Matt Robeson, POW Magazine

“The vocals move in carefully, with a slight melodic nod to the Jesus and Mary Chain, then letting the tune burst and bloom into an arrogant bit of space rock before returning the song back to Earth.”
– Nathan Lankford, Austin Town Hall

Reviews for Split Moon – Slow Satellite

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

“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

“Extremely fuzzy and leaning to the heavier side of guitar-laden shoegaze like the early Swervedriver, while carrying considerable qualities from space rock, krautrock and drone rock akin to bands like Loop and The Telescopes…” – ZR, Destroy/Exist