Dressed like the angry triplet daughters of Fred & Toodie Cole, and with a cover sleeve that apes the Dead Moon ethos in every way, shape & form, you’d be forgiven for expecting mystical, magical biker rock on AMERICAN SUN's debut single. It’s instead a fairly aces set of three numbers that meander between wobbly, tuneful garage rock with a mildly psychedelic sheen (“American Sun”), Frightwig-style atonality & tribal beats (“Poor Girl”) and more longform winding-path pop music with loud guitar & coolly sweet vocals (“Indian Morning”).
It’s not refined and it’s not anything more than a really solid debut that hints at some pretty great things coming down the line. And here's the deal - since the whole thing is available for free over at their Bandcamp page, I won't post any of the music here - a couple more clicks and you can be doing it for yourself. And you should! (Then buy it so they'll make more).

My band's playing with them at the end of the month - looking at the album cover was making me really optimistic that they'd be a total Dead Moon tribute band.
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