Sonnymoon from Boston, Massachusetts. consist of Dane Orr (instruments) and Anna Wise (vocals).
Sonnymoon’s music is woozy, magical, mysterious, hypnotic, quixotic. Other words that occurred while we were listening to their self-titled album, released this autumn, included: squelchy, fantastic, phantasmic, , orgasmic. It is liquid and loose, unconventional and unorthodox. It jerks and juts out at ridiculous angles, but it can also be smooth and easy on the ear. At various points it will seem as though you are listening to an electronica record, at other times to an R&B one, a jazz one, an avant-garde one, even a pop one. Some of the songs will sound like all of the above, at once, while others will make you wonder whether you are listening to a brand new, as yet unnamed genre.
Actually, the two members of Sonnymoon met at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where Dane Orr was studying saxophone and Anna Wise was studying singing. proggy synth-pop and psychedelic soul weren’t quite as free-flowing and far-out as this – their standout qualities are Orr’s individualistic approach to computers and keyboards, and Wise’s vocals, which are more of a series of cute hiccups than anything that could conventionally be termed “singing”. The songs on the album rank alongside the finest we’ve heard all year.
The Fat Angel Sings 