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 Clouds 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.

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). With a new lineup including bassist Ryan Orvis (Alex E.T.), the band 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 is hitting the road for a series of West Coast dates in spring/summer 2025 with Starr and Orvis joined by Nick Thomas on guitar and Tiffany Sotomayor on drums.

Mark Starr – guitar, vocals
Ryan Orvis – bass guitar, vocals
Nick Thomas – guitar, vocals
Tiffany Sotomayor – drums, vocals

 

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

Contact: ryan@ghosttowerrecords.com