Moon Blue’s Disco Aurora conceals a handful of potential summer anthems beneath a collection of less compelling tracks.
Fun fact: Moon Blue’s The Moonlight Disco was one of the first projects we reviewed on this site. That was back in 2023. He’s back now with a new extended play, Disco Aurora. Let’s see what he’s got this time.
For context, the review you’re about to read/scroll through was written after one listen. Don’t be surprised if we speak of it inversely later in the year.
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This isn’t exactly an exciting opener, but for an extended play, it works well enough. It does sound a bit cliché and cut from the wrong edges of the Tame Impala-style disco cloth.
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I like the way he sings the “never once” on the chorus. Other than that, unfortunately, there isn’t anything here that I haven’t exactly heard in some form many times before. Now, don’t get me wrong, that’s not necessarily a “bad” thing, but I would appreciate a dash of lemon in my chamomile once in a while, if you get what I mean. So this track is, at a glance, practically “faultless” in terms of the effort going into it—especially considering he appears not to be a native English speaker writing lyrics in English—but we’re not being treated to much “creativity” here either.
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Yeah, average-tier synth-pop again, unfortunately. This track does overdo it a bit with the synth trails, but it’s nothing criminal. Did I mention he’s got a stable singing voice, though?
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This one sounds a lot like it could grow into a summer hit. Throw this onto the soundtrack of a popular-enough TV series, and that might end up being the case.
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This is fine, but it’s not very different from what we’ve heard so far.
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I see we got a last-minute boost in quality. Still, we’re getting synth-disco-pop energy again, but this time the performance brings with it a micro hint of intrigue with it. I wish the energy on the verses was matched on the choruses, but it’s fine.
Overall, for a dedicated listen, I wouldn’t recommend giving this EP a listen. However, if you’re making a party playlist and you don’t want people spending the night naming songs and ragging on artists, I’d say you could risk adding either track 2 or 6 to the playlist.
Kudos to Moon Blue.
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