Arthur Moon

Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Lora-Faye Åshuvud launched the Arthur Moon project in 2017 via the EP Our Head, an experimental art pop effort whose melodic accessibility coexisted with unconventional structures and an introspective edge. Her 2019 full-length debut built further on this wide-ranging method through an array of electro-acoustic textures and a collage-like construction, while the initial half of a planned two-part release, Chaos! Chaos! Chaos!: Side A, followed in 2021.

A native New Yorker, Åshuvud first surfaced within folk and indie rock circles before selecting the Arthur Moon name to signal her increasingly exploratory compositional voice. She routinely assembled lyrics by slicing phrases from magazines and newspapers, then enlisted Nick Lerman, Marty Fowler, Dave Palazola, Aviva Jaye, and Cale Hawkins to shape the distinctive pop architecture of Our Head, issued in March 2017. Refining her methods across the subsequent two years, she issued the self-released Arthur Moon album in August 2019. Its eight tracks surfaced in September 2021 as Chaos! Chaos! Chaos!: Side A, anchored by the richly layered title song and forming the opening segment of a larger work.