Moonshake - Eva Luna: Classic or Dud

great album! listening to it now for the first time. reminds me of the Too Pure stuff i like.

Any ideas why the UK and US versions had their sides swapped over, so the UK side one was US side two etc?

i dunno but the 11th song on my copy is so awesome. the guitars rule!

still buzzing off this album

Gee I guess I should really revisit! Every revive is gushing on this thread.

This is their best album yeah

How strange I never posted on this thread! I will always remember them and their live show in 1993 at the Palladium in LA opening for PJ Harvey on a three band bill. (Middle band: Radiohead. What a world.)

If you like the guitars and the Dave Callahan songs on this album, it's well worth checking out Attitude, which was the last record by his previous band, the Wolfhounds. By that stage in their career (1989/90), they'd moved right away from what most people would associate them with (i.e. 'Anti-Midas Touch', the C86 scene and generally sounding a bit like the Fall), they were on more of a Sonic Youth kick instead, but unlike most of their contemporaries here, they were doing so in a totally wideawake and non-shoegazey way (maybe it was this that led to them being totally ignored at the time?). Anyhow, some of my favourite multi-guitar-pile-up sounds of the era. The best songs (Vertical Grave, Celeste) aren't on Youtube, but this one is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY7b3AxATjw

That's awesome... I wish I could preview a bit more of that album.

(Wolfhounds)

I got to play this "out", as I believe the young people say - well, "Little Thing", at a little DJ night my pal runs. Still can't work out the track order from the sleeve or label to this day.

Big Dave C is big in the birdwatching world these days:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/12/david-callahan-big-year

not sure why but i was aware of that somehow.

they did have a song called beautiful pigeon so there you go

I recall back in '95 he used to work behind the counter at one of the Music & Video Exchange shops in London, so I'd guess he will be a lot happier with his current career.

I just woke up from a short, very lucid, and I dare say accurate, dream about when Margeret Fiedler left Moonshake to form Laika. She took all the keyboards, strapped to her back, but could not take any horns because they were too bulky.

That is all.

I just stumbled on this thread and decided to give it a go on youtube-- this guy's voice is a monstrosity, the girl is trying to be spooky. The lyrics are kind of bad puddles of oil spill water. The band sounds really great, the rhythms are pretty nice, but UGH UGH UGH. It hurts! I'M DISAPPOINTED, YOU GUYS.

Whatever. I unabashedly love Eva Luna. One if my favorite bass guitar albums of all time.

My god Big Good Angel is amazing.

Just discovered this album and period singles/EPs. Brilliant stuff, Dave's vocals grew on me surprisingly fast. Always loved Margaret.

Listening to the second album, it's at least half amazing and may very well win me over.

I need more fucked up shit like this in my life.

Reissue on the way...

Approving Eva Luna reissue artwork at Beggars Group on Monday. Yes, it's all on the way, now ... pic.twitter.com/0CC0fuWFxg

— Moonshake (@moonshake666) November 23, 2022

Very exciting!! And the second album, "The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow", won me over quickly as well. Great jazz-not-jazz vibe. I never could find the love for "Dirty & Divine" though.

Dave Callahan has released a pair of amazing solo albums in the past year or so, definitely worth checking out:
https://davidlancecallahan.bandcamp.com/album/english-primitive-i
https://davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/english-primitive-ii

Floored by the Peel session (transmitted two months after it was recorded, a lag longer than normal?).

Too Pure OTM.