MOONCHILD UNVEIL NEW ALBUM STARFRUIT OUT TODAY
Debuts New Single "Get By" featuring Tank and The Bangas
North American Tour This Spring, Europe This Fall
Following months of anticipation worldwide, and four critically acclaimed singles, LA-based trio Moonchild (Amber Navran, Andris Mattson, and Max Bryk) unveil their highly anticipated new album, Starfruit, today.
Listen to Starfruit below.
The record includes the simmering and soulful new single "Get By" [feat. Tank and The Bangas]. On the track, dreamy keys wrap around handclaps as evocative guitar locks into a call and response with the vocals. GRAMMY® Award-nominated Louisiana phenomenon Tank and The Bangas bring a simmering global groove as Moonchild counter with ethereal harmonies and intergalactic delivery, fusing two signature styles on one free-flowing anthem.
The band paved the way for the album with "Love I Need" [feat. Rapsody]. In addition to gaining traction at DSPs, it incited critical applause. Right out of the gate, CLASH raved, "Love I Need" feels like vintage Sly Stone viewed through a Soulquarian lens, with the soulful flourish worthy of Erykah Badu in her "Mama’s Gun" era," before adding, “Neo-soul meets vintage funk with a key contemporary rapper on top, "Love I Need" goes deep." Meanwhile, Brooklyn Vegan dubbed it "a warm jazzy neo-soul song with a killer verse from rapper Rapsody."
The new track arrived on the heels of "Tell Him" [feat. Lalah Hathaway], which has earned widespread critical acclaim. NPR Music praised it as a "bittersweet re-telling of love gone sour" and elaborated that "over a bouncy, drum-heavy groove and dreamy keys, lead singer Amber Navran fights with everything she's got to put things back in order." Billboard flaunted it among "R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week” and claimed, “The track serves as the intro to Moonchild’s upcoming album, creating a powerful ambience all its own."
Additionally setting the stage for Starfruit are singles "Too Good" and "You Got One" feat. Alex Isley. The band has revealed an extensive tour with plans to kick off the North American leg at The Vogel in Red Bank, NJ on March 29, crisscrossing the country, before concluding at The Independent in San Francisco, CA on May 13. Check out the full routing below.
In addition to Hathaway, Isley, and Rapsody, Starfruit also notably boasts collaborations from Tank and The Bangas, Ill Camille, Mumu Fresh, Chantae Cann, and Josh Johnson. Alongside the extensive list of featured artists on ‘Starfruit,’ the release sees Moonchild experimenting with new synths and sounds. While still rooted in their trademark tones, these textures and sound palettes elevate Starfruit to new and impressive Moonchild musical territory. “Max has this arpeggiator synth patch that makes me so happy, Amber incorporated this cool octave pedal patch on her vocals, and I made a keyboard patch I’m obsessed with,” Andris remarks.
Of the collaborations lead vocalist Amber Navran said: “All too often Black women don’t get the recognition and credit they deserve for their incredible talent and contributions to the music industry, and in every industry, scene and space. Each one of these women has been a huge inspiration to us and we were so honored to get the opportunity to make music with them."
"Starfruit" follows Moonchild’s critically acclaimed album Little Ghost which saw huge support from the likes of Jamie Cullum (BBC Radio 2), Phil Taggart (BBC Radio 1), Jamz Supernova (BBC 1Xtra), Huey Morgan, Cerys Matthews and Don Letts (BBC 6Music), Bradley Zero and from across Jazz FM (who previously named the band Soul Act Of The Year) and KCRW. The album also saw press accolades from Paste Magazine, Vinyl Factory, Soul Bounce, HYPEBEAST, Cool Hunting, Complex, and from NPR, with Moonchild’s Tiny Desk Session logging 4 million views.
Moonchild have collaborated and toured with highly respected names from across music including Kamasi Washington, Stevie Wonder, The Internet, Jill Scott, have been compared to the likes of Tom Misch and Jordan Rakei and built up a host of iconic supporters from Robert Glasper (who has collaborated with Amber on his own projects) and Laura Mvula to James Poyser, Jazzy Jeff, 9th Wonder and Tyler, The Creator.
Experience Starfruit now!
MOONCHILD’S ‘STARFRUIT’ NORTH AMERICA / EUROPE 2022 TOUR
US:
March 29: Red Bank, NJ @ The Vogel
March 30: Boston, MA @ The Paradise Rock Club
April 01: Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
April 02: New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
April 03: Philadelphia, PA @ World Café Live
April 05: Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
April 06: Charlotte, NC @ Amos' Southend
April 08: Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
April 09: Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
April 12: Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
April 14: Austin, TX @ The Parish
April 15: Houston, TX @ Studio @ WHL
April 16: Dallas, TX @ Trees
April 19: Kansas City, MO @ recordBar
April 20: St Louis, MO @ Old Rock House
April 21: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
April 22: Cincinnati, OH @ Nostalgia Jazz Club
April 23: Detroit, MI @ El Club
April 24: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom and Tavern
April 26: Toronto, ON @ Adelaide Hall
April 27: Montreal, QC @ Ausgang Plaza
April 30: San Diego, CA @ Music Box
May 01: Santa Barbara, CA @ SOhO
May 05: Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
May 06: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
May 07: Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret
May 08: Miami, FL @ GroundUP Festival
May 11: Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda
May 13: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Europe:
Sep 01: Gothenburg, SE @ Nefertiti
Sep 03: Riga, LV @ Palladium Black Box
Sep 05: Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret
Sep 06: Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan
Sep 07: Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio
Sep 08: Hamburg, DE @ Laeiszhalle
Sep 10: Berlin, DE @ Gretchen
Sep 11: Prague, CZ @ Palac Akropolis
Sep 12: Warsaw, PL @ Praga Centrum
Sep 13: Vienna, AT @ Porgy & Bess
Sep 15: Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom
Sep 16: Paris, FR @ Trabendo
Sep 17: Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Oude Zaai
Sep 20: Roeselare, BE @ Trax
Sep 21: Rotterdam, NL @ LantarenVenster
Sep 22: Eindhoven, NL @ Fifth NRE
Sep 25: Bristol, UK @ Trinity
Sep 26: Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
Sep 28: Birmingham, UK @ Academy 2
Sep 29: Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall
Sep 30: London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
Oct 01: Leeds, UK @ The Wardrobe
Oct 04: Madrid, ES @ Spain Caracol
Oct 05: Barcelona, ES @ Spain La Nau