Rough Age, the musical alias of multi-instrumentalist Nathan Archer & friends, is an artist caught between rock and roots, intimate and universal, roaring band and crooning songwriter.  Witness “Al Jazeera”, a gypsy-acoustic-pop puzzle in rotation on Colorado Springs’ KEPC, which compares a disintegrating relationship to Middle Eastern upheaval.  For a darker thrill, “Great Awakening” features a lovelorn madman howling over overdriven Spanish chords.  Throughout “Before It Comes Apart” the vocals shine and shudder compellingly.  Even more so live- Archer employs a customized stomp box and looper setup to build layer upon layer of sound, spinning the songs into an uncanny but beautiful chaos.

“Achilles” is catchy as hell” - Stubborn Sounds
“Opening number “Adelita” displays subtlety and detail, and builds angsty menace one chord at a time.“ - Leicester Bangs Blog
“Archer‘s a gifted songwriter and vocalist ... reminiscent of Elvis Costello when he still had it.” - CS Indy

Bay Of Seething now available on cassette via Somatic:
https://somaticaustin.bandcamp.com/album/bay-of-seething

Bay of Seething LP available for order: 
http://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/bay-of-seething/  http://www.forcedexposure.com/Artists/MOONSICLES.html

Byron Coley: "Lovely, mysteriously canted LP by the new Austin-based quartet put together by Aaron Russell (ex-Cherry Blossoms, Weird Weeds, etc.). The music on Bay of Seething is instrumental, and rolls with a very cinematic feel, as though it were the soundtrack for some sort of rather sad, but highly psychedelic, movie. Sonically, if you need easy handles, the sounds are probably closer to Weird Weeds' than to Cherry Blossoms', perhaps because bassist Lindsey Verrill is a Weeds alum as well. But perhaps not. The blend of Aaron's guitar - sometimes raw and heavy, sometimes more in the electro-folk mode - with Sheila Scoville's synth, Verrill's bass, and Carolyn Cunningham's drums creates a dynamic and surging whole that's hypnotic and rapturous. Curiously, Moonsicles grab neither of the easy tropes that have lately been the stock-in-trade of instrumental units - orientalia and spaghetti westernism. Their approach is straighter in a way, more based on proggy rock-qua-rock without nodding to either the far east or the faux west. The more the record plays, the deeper you'll sink. So grab yr duvet and prepare thyself for a solid ride" 

Christopher Stigliano: "I wasn't expecting this 'un to be as much of a SURPRISE as it was, but man was BAY OF SEETHING by the Austin TX-based Moonsicles perhaps thee album of the week to catch me totally off guard! For being an outta-nowhere sorta act Moonsicles really know how to pour on the heavy-duty sound stylings comin' off one part cheezy film soundtrack and about ten post-krautrock electronics with the results being pretty nerve-bending in a Can meets O-Type way."

Nathan Ford: "Ray Bradbury couldn't paint a better picture with words. And that in a nutshell is what this quartet excels at - building a three dimensional world and stimulating all of the senses - an admirable talent when you consider that they only have direct access to one of the listener's senses. This is transportive music, requiring little from the listener except a willingness to yield control. Once Moonsicles are behind the wheel you'll be taken to the most amazing places."

Biography: Moonsicles is a band from Austin, Texas, who play instrumental music in an elusive style. Sometimes, it is swamp new age, other times celestial metal. Often, it's a score to an incoherent film whose characters are lost, deprived, and delirious with hallucinations of miracles and monsters. Their songs are spare, lonely, pensive, inventive, gorgeous soundlands for the human ear to roam. 

Moonsicles formed from some of Austin’s most provocative bands. Guitarist Aaron Russell (The Weird Weeds) distills melodies until they are a frame of some smoldering behemoth; bassist Lindsey Verrill (The Weird Weeds, Some Say Leland) thwacks out megalodon throbs of bottom end and smites with shimmering frequencies; percussionist Carolyn Cunningham (Pillow Queens, Woven Bones) deconstructs rhythms with a hummingbird's nimbleness; and keyboardist Sheila Scoville (Ichi Ni San Shi, Suspirians, No Mas Bodas) makes  plaintive, extraterrestrial noises. Together they play meditative instrumentals for the mind's every mood and color. 

Our debut CD, Creeper, is sold out but available digitally: https://moonsicles.bandcamp.com/releases

Praise for Creeper:
"Lovely band based ambient music." –www.tinymixtapes.com
"A richly rewarding trip." –www.terrascope.co.uk/
"Essential." –http://active-listener.blogspot.com/
"A beautiful package of art and sound." 
–http://lostseasound.blogspot.com/

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