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New Video: Sun Moon Sky Share Dance Floor Friendly “Work Eat Sleep Repeat”

Sun Moon Sky is a British-Swedish duo — Jenny (vocals) and Joe (production) — that can trace their history back some time: They’ve worked together for years with each other and in other projects, including a project that ended up on a label, touring and with material on soundtracks, while landing a Top 10 hit before calling it a day after the prototypical music industry complications and drama.

 For the British-Swedish duo, Sun Moon Sky is a creative reset, in which they craft music that they describe as sad-but-hopeful, cinematic-yet-intimate pop that’s a island of empathy and escapism for these complicated times — both for themselves and for listeners. Sonically, the duo creates epic soundscapes that sees them pairing analog synths, programmed arpeggios, live instrumentation, drum machines and Jenny’s blues-influenced vocals. They describe their sound as seemingly existing in the space between several different genres and styles, and note that some have dubbed their sound art pop, apocapop, alt rock, electronica, sci-fi blues and more. 

The duo begin 2024 with the slow-burning and dramatic “Into The Light.” Built around gated reverb-soaked drum beats, Jenny’s gently vocodered vocals, lush layers of atmospheric synths and bursts of bluesy guitar, “Into The Light,” continues a run of shimmering and cinematic material rooted in earnest, heart-worn-on-sleeve intimacy that recalls Kate Bush and others. 

Their latest single “Work Eat Sleep Repeat” is a Kate Bush-meets-Giorgio Moroder-like bit of synth pop featuring glittering synth oscillations, a relentless motorik grooves, skittering beats serving as lush, hook driven and dance floor friendly bed for Jenny’s expressive and yearning delivery — before the song ends with a brooding, minor key outré.

“‘Work Eat Sleep Repeat'” as the duo explain “is about the grand journey that we all go on, and the choices we make along the way.” The pixel art animated visual by Mexican artist Bruno Cortes follow the mundane drudgery of every day life with an uncanny attention to detail.

Single Review by William Ruben Helms

Sun Moon Sky is a British-Swedish duo — Jenny (vocals) and Joe (production) — that can trace their history back some time: They’ve worked together for years with each other and in other projects, including a project that ended up on a label, touring and on soundtracks while landing a Top 10 hit before calling it a day after complications and drama. For the duo, Sun Moon Sky is a creative reset, in which they craft music that they describe as sad-but-hopeful, cinematic-yet-intimate pop that’s a island of empathy and escapism for these complicated times — both for themselves and for listeners.

Sonically, the duo creates epic soundscapes that sees them pairing analog synths, programmed arpeggios, live instrumentation, drum machines and Jenny’s blues-influenced vocals. They describe their sound as seemingly existing in the space between several different genres and styles, and note that some have dubbed their sound art pop, apocapop, alt rock, electronica, sci-fi blues and more.

Clocking in at a little over 3:30, Sun Moon Sky’s latest single, the swooning “State of Grace” is an intimate yet cinematic bit of pop featuring twinkling keys, buzzing power chords, skittering four-on-the-floor paired with Jenny’s expressive delivery and the duo’s penchant for crating rousingly anthemic hooks.

Seemingly nodding at Eurythmics “Here Comes The Rain Again” and “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” and Michael Jackson‘s “Beat It,” “State of Grace,” as the duo explains “is about finding light and strength even n the darkest of times.” They add that it’s also “about how important it is to stand for something, for yourself, refusing to give up.”