Welsh band Moon Goose have released their 4th album, Murmurations via Fruits de Mer Records and Inflatable Tarmac Records.  It was written, recorded and mixed in 2023. The songs were “whispered to the band by the Barn when they meet on dark icy nights, disturbing the quietness of the Welsh countryside nights with their spontaneous and unrestricted turmoil.” The song and video for “2023 AD” are out now.

The album is titled Murmurations because the term describes a natural phenomenon in which “a large group of starlings fly in unison using complex laws of movement depending on relative birds around each individual.” This behaviour can also be observed on land in herds and under the Sea in schools of fish.

The band continue about the idea of “murmurations”:

They are the natural answer of the collective facing a common danger. What seems to be drawn by the power of one leader is actually generated by the awareness of every individual, working together towards the collective fate. There must be a lesson there. Moon Geese (mean geese) on the other side don’t perform murmurations because there aren’t any predator on the Moon, except for a few quickly gone humans and a couple multilingual slow bots on wheels.

Murmurations was recorded and mixed at Twin Peaks Studio, Wales, by Adam Fuest (Mott the Hoople, Babyshambles, The Cure).

On the whole, Moon Goose embrace a sound approach that took Space, Psych, Prog and Motorik, put them “into a bag, shook it, poked it, burned it, then spread the ashes from the top of the Welsh Mountains with the wind in their face until their eyes were crying black tears.”

Murmurations is being released on Pink Vinyl (x300), Digipak CD and is available on all streaming platforms.