No Moon

Black Wing

Official Description

Written over the course of the last few years, with about half of the songs penned over the last six months (mostly due to pandemic “free time”), No Moon is a heart-wrenchingly honest outpour of emotion. Throughout the writing process, Barrett was having recurring dreams and felt a strange sense of timelessness — that, combined with quarantine is what he simply describes as “a weird experience.” Barrett explains, “Quarantine was profoundly isolating. With writing this record, more than anything I just wanted to prove to myself that I could make something out of it. That ended up being a lot of songs about feeling isolated, a lot of ‘trapped in my own head’ moments. I think that was a lot of people’s experience as well.”

My Thoughts

I have a confession to make. I like music that isn’t metal.

There, I said it. Now this little blog isn’t just about metal music. Which is good, because Dan Barrett just dropped a new album, and it’s awesome.

Black Wing is the electronic counterpart to Giles Corey, the acoustic-only project of the Have A Nice Life frontman. No Moon is the second album as Black Wing, and it is an excellent document of the Plague Year 2020.

Okay, so Vulnerable sounds like a circa 2003 Dutch gabber track, but the rest of the album is decidedly chill.

For Fans Of

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Have A Nice Life
• Swans