“Shaking Off The Evil” by Moon Fever is a Must Listen!

Black and white images of convulsions spurred forth by religious experiences. Over-saturated colors filter moving pictures of a rock n’ roll band in a similar fashion, presenting their new song to us as a dark bluesy hymn more than it is a pop-styled single. There are plenty of reasons you’re going to get lost in the new music video for “Shaking Off The Evil” by Moon Fever is a must listen, but in my opinion, the biggest one is the disturbingly well-synchronized shots and accompanying soundtrack.

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There’s nothing all that psychedelic about “Shaking Off The Evil” – its lyrics, music and video aren’t beholden to the druggy indulgences that a hipster incarnation of this band would just as soon have designed an entire LP around – and yet the surrealism in this visual piece is absolutely off the charts. Postmodernity has been everywhere you look and listen in the American underground lately, but in the case of the new single and music video from Moon Fever, it’s being utilized to convey something entirely more focused and heartfelt than most of the content I’ve heard in the hard rock community and beyond lately.

There isn’t a single instance within this song in which the bassline isn’t rumbling leaving a quaking presence in the big picture that utterly forms the mood of the music – even when the guitar strings are injecting as much color as we can handle into the main melody. If you wanted to make the argument that the two elements are of equal importance to the narrative here, you wouldn’t have to do a lot of legwork to convince others of as much; aside from the joint attack of the vocals and drums (which is devastatingly physical in its own right), the aforementioned combo is the beefiest of any here.

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I have a strong belief that Moon Fever put as much energy into making their music have a punch as they do allowing for melodic components that would sell their sound well on the radio, and that’s nothing to scoff at these days. There’s a lot of contrast between the two guitar parts in “Shaking Off The Evil,” but that’s the whole point – in using power to make their point to us, Moon Fever remind the whole world that size really does matter when it comes to making incredible (and affective) rock n’ roll music.

There’s no debating that rock has seen better times than the present, but if there’s one band looking to change this, it’s Moon Fever. They don’t seem to put any stock in whether or not the establishment is going to agree with the ways and means of their sound and general aesthetic at all here; I learned in “Shaking Off The Evil” that they’re far more concerned with making a name for themselves than they are supporting some archaic notion of a scene or its trite (and totally implied) politics. The bottom line here? These guys are all about the music, and that really needs to count for something this summer.

Samuel Pratt