Austin, Texas trop-pop duo Summer Salt (singer/guitarist Matthew Terry and drummer Eugene Chung) will return with their new album Campanita, due out May 91th via Wax Bodega. Ahead of its release the band released lead single “Supermoon.”
There is a simplicity to “Supermoon” in its ability to craft a classicly arranged indie pop song with a delicate warmth and ease that coasts through with a romantic spirit that pulls from some of the all-time great pop songs that our grandparents fell in love with.
Speaking on the track, Terry adds:
“My family and I were getting really into moon phases at the time when I was piecing together ‘Supermoon. Melissa, my wife, believes in the charges of the full moon and so we ritually do moon water and if it’s a supermoon you are supercharged after drinking the water. I wanted to create a pop song that had a very ‘follow along’ story of a character who makes a supermoon appear to save themselves at the end. After many attempts I went back to music skills I’m a little better at and that is making jazzy pop tunes with more environmental/descriptive lyrics. I took inspiration from songs sung in the 40s and 50s, one that I imagined a lonely sailor would sing in some old port town, filled with chromatic half steps to give it that surfy ocean music thing. I put the word supermoon at the end of the chorus and freaked! I loved it. All in all this song became something more genuine to me as I gave into the kind of music I make without trying too hard.”
Enjoy a listen to “Supermoon” now below.
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