I don't know if Fuzzilla intended to ride the hype of the feature-length adaptation of Dune released this year, but even if they didn't, it's hard not to see the parallels. Under the Desert Moon is the second EP from the Ottawa experimental cohort, as well as a concept album about people fighting for survival on a desert planet against an extractive, colonialist regime of cybernetic space-swine. It might not be as densely storied as Frank Herbert's saga, but I hope that you can at least pick up on some common themes between the two. As if this wasn't ambitious enough, the music of the album is something that I can only describe as carnivalesque. All conventions and norms seem to have been entirely abandoned in order to synthesize frenetic strains of chiptunes, postpunk, darkwave, power metal, and sketches of monster-ridden soundscapes into a charismatic whole. It kind of feels like what could happen if Igorrr teamed up with Devo and Blind Guardian to write the theme music for an anime about an ordinary man who learns a lost form of dark martial arts and then proceeds to hunt down and merc graboids with his bare fists. This album is truly outlandish, epic, and original, and I honestly can't get enough!
