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Deastro - Moondagger

Deastro tells us about the tracks on his album 'Moondagger', and what inspired them.

Detroit-born Randolph Chabot, aka Deastro, played his first few UK dates back in May, and he'll be releasing his debut album 'Moondagger' over here through Ghostly International on 13th July.

He tells us about the tracks on the album, and what inspired them.

1. 'Biopheli'
There is a green field with a red river flowing from the sky into a hole in the center of the field with a clock flace on the surface of the sun whose arms spin both ways. There is a beautiful woman dancing with an ugly man unafraid and unresolved to sing any specific song. A father comes home, one daughter rejoices one daughter hides in the folded corners of tired walls, no wait she is hiding in between floors. There are 3 floating floors of separation levitating one above the other in a field with no visible end but yet somehow ideas like house pets and elevators exist so there is hope.

2. 'Parallelogram'
This song is composed of samples from a wind up Christmas globe that plays music, a zipper on my moms coat, two parts sunday school, one part listening to Dosh in the verse, one part liking Animal Collective
too much in the outro, a pinch of hiding in my grandmothers coat closet when I was younger. I had a dream about God paying the rocks to sing praises to his name and they cried out, oh they cried out. Lyrics inspired by Eric Hoffer's the true believer.

3. 'Tone Adventure # 3'
Emoticons, evokicons. I was really frustrated about miracles when I wrote this song. They happen all the time but they don't always mean that every only way, one way, breath truth and life, are really just that. Sometimes they are smaller like the amazing intricacies of the micro systems of one scum covered, backwater pond. Sometimes there really is a still small voice but how do we know whose voice it is. I used to get up in arms about my own doubts and I would force questions that no one can answer on my little brothers and my mom so they would question their faith. I regret that.

4. 'Toxic Crusaders'
You are what you eat and breath, and so are our kids. I wrote this song so I could try and quit smoking (which I have) after I started having dreams of mutant children. On a side note yes I did rip off the concept from the Toxic Avenger.

5. 'Greens Greys And Nordics'
This song is about utopian literature, the time I saw a bum I knew get beaten up against a curb by his drug dealers, this essay I read called "When God was a Woman", learning how to love others and this pastor I knew who told me that demons and aliens are the same thing.

6. 'Day Of Wonder'
I had this dream about this race of giants where the women were beautiful but the men deformed and hunchbacked. The women would mock the men for their deformities and degrade them for their flaws. This song is about their plea to be loved as they are.

7. 'Pyramid Builders'
Black and green is a great color combination. I was trying to write a Philip Glass techno song.

8. 'Daniel Johnston Was Stabbed In The Heart With The Moondagger By The King Of Darkness And His Ghost Is Writing This Song As A Warning To All Of Us'
This song is about demons who beg God for forgiveness and rebuilding American communities. Our bass player Brian just calls this one song 'Q' because he can't remember the name.

9. 'River of Life'
Our guitar player describes this song as Cheerleaders on Acid.

10. 'Vermillion Plaza'
An exit on I 80 east. This is a sad song.

11. 'Moondagger'
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

12. 'Kurgan Wave #1'
Sometimes it helps to write a song when the girl you love goes away.

'Moondagger' is available to pre-order now, here. It will be preceded by single 'Vermillion Plaza'.