City Dress is the folk-indie-pop project of Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Christina Skramstad. She has recently released her single “Moon Landings”, which feels like a golden folk song lost in time.
“Moon Landings” is a sparse and gentle piece of storytelling, that carries the foundation of folk rock on its back. But it does so with sparse spacey flourishes and arrangements that give it an otherworldy and ethereal journey, as if you’re traveling through a lost bar in Twin Peaks.
Or as Skramstad describes it:
I wrote ‘Moon Landings’ in the early days of the pandemic after watching a show in which the characters go back in time to the night Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon. It made me think about transcendence, awe, and what it feels like when the world’s collective gaze is aimed in the same direction, as that was happening in real-time with Covid. ‘Moon Landings’ is a meditation on moments that forever change us, whether they are collective or individual. Everyone has their own personal moon landings when moving beyond their defined atmosphere through evolution or invention, challenging what they are told is binary or fixed. ‘Moon Landings’ explores what it means to be in awe of how we create new worlds, answers, and, inevitably, new problems through human ingenuity and perseverance.
Enjoy a listen to “Moon Landings” below.
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