Moon Cub’s debut single, “Utopia 90,” is modestly magnificence. The song flows into your subconscious like a vapor trail across a pastel sky. Rob and Suzy Muir of Moon Cub make music that plays back a memory and gives it a soundtrack, and their debut submission is an easy invitation to pause and swim in their nostalgia.
“Utopia 90” easily navigates between Trip Hop and Indie Electronica. Its textures are downtempo, and it glides gently on a warm cushion of ambient synths, restrained percussion, and wistful, lingering vocals you half-remember from a daydream.
Rob Muir’s production is detailed yet spacious, leaving room for each element to breathe. He constructs the instrumental world from start to finish, except for some wild saxophone by the band’s close friend, Pete Norman. The sax wanders like golden hour light through dusty blinds, surprising, emotional, and thoroughly human. The lyrics and vocal performance by Suzy Muir glue it all with a sense of longing that simultaneously feels so personal and universal. Her voice beckons you in as a friend, like a secret told across time.
“Utopia 90” ponders that a mental time warp is the kind of time travel you get from a window with a passing landscape and a quiet mind. It yearns for the spirit of the 1990s, the hope, the unarticulated sense that the future might be rewritten. Mon Cub is both a fresh start and an organic progression. It was born from Rob Muir’s personal solo project, Luna Waves. Their debut album, “Skyline Waiting Room,” is due this summer. “Utopia 90” establishes a sweet, transportive tone for what will follow.
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