Week 1 of 52 albums in 2025

Moonseeds by Moonseeds

I'm going to listen to a new album every week this year.

When I say new I don't mean new to the world, just new to me. It's something I've been thinking about for a while, trying to decide what constitutes listening to an album. There's a lot of albums that on first listen I'll like some songs, but when I go back there's other songs that grow on me after repeated listens. Often, those slow burns end up being my favourite songs as time goes by.

With this in mind, I've decided I need to listen to an album at minimum 5 times during the week to constitute giving it a fair go.

I'm doing my best to find these albums on Bandcamp so that I can pay the artists directly and download the music to listen to offline.

This week I decided to go with Moonseeds by Moonseeds.

This is a collaboration made up of people in two bands I quite like; Electric Moon, from Germany, and Seedy Jeezus, from Australia. If you've never heard of either of these bands that's not surprising, they don't get played on the radio much (apart from community radio) which is a real shame because there is some amazing music from both of these bands.

I love this genre of music. I'm not sure if it's stoner rock, psychedelic rock, or kraut rock, but it's good shit.

The short version of how this album happened is in 2018 Seedy Jeezus went on tour to Europe. Whilst there the guitarist from Seedy Jeezus, Lex, did some recording with Sula (drums) and Komet (bass) from Electric Moon. Time passed and eventually Seedy Jeezus went back to Europe for another tour in 2023. Lex once again caught up with them and finished off some overdubs, and the album was done.

It's a 3 track album, but with the title track, Earth, being 21 minutes long, the middle song Sun being a short 7 minutes, and the last track, Moon being a moment shy of 13 minutes, it feels quite fleshed out.

I quite liked this album. It's very jammy but smooth, not shreddy like some of the Seedy Jeezus stuff can be, and tighter than a collaboration done between Electric Moon and Papir (called the paper moon sessions). It's an album that I've put on and have driven to, written to, and walked to, and it sits really well as background music. There's some lyrics in the song Sun, and it sounds like something is sung in the later half of moon but otherwise it is purely instrumental, and the singing is often drenched in reverb and more like another instrument than typical vocals.

I'd have to say my favourite song is probably Moon. It just rolls on really nicely and has a warm feel to it, it makes me want to move my body to the rhythm. Earth would be a close second, it gets pretty heavy and intense near the end and I really like that buildup. My least favourite would be Sun, it's not bad, it's just a gentler song and never takes off like the other two tracks. It's still quite a nice song though.

All in all I quite liked this album and can see myself going back to this in future. I'd give it 4/5 fingers, so not quite a full fisting, but a decent go of it.

If anyone has any suggestions you're welcome to post them here. I have a few lined up but not a years worth and it's good to try new things :)

Post script:

This is something I posted on a secret subreddit at the end of the first week in 2025 (Wednesday the 8th of January) and I thought I should have done a more public version. So while the first 2 editions are ‘late’, from here on they will be posted at the conclusion of the week (Wednesday my time, unless I can’t get to some internet).

Shout out to my friend (I) on Edefinition who got me onto this idea after doing 52 novels last year. I’d say her name but from what I can gather she is a private person and wouldn’t want any extra attention.