℗ 2023 The Pepper Gang Inc
| Released | April 20, 2023 |
| Duration | 41m 08s |
| Record Label | BMG Rights Mgmt (Canada) |
| Genre | Alternative |
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1.1
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You Can Let Go
Half Moon Run |
3:06 | |||
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1.2
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Alco
Half Moon Run |
3:48 | |||
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1.3
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Hotel in Memphis
Half Moon Run |
3:36 | |||
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1.4
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Everyone's Moving Out East
Half Moon Run |
4:12 | |||
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1.5
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9beat
Half Moon Run |
4:06 | |||
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1.6
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Dodge the Rubble
Half Moon Run |
3:52 | |||
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1.7
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Heartbeat
Half Moon Run |
3:24 | |||
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1.8
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Gigafire
Half Moon Run |
3:28 | |||
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1.9
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Goodbye Cali
Half Moon Run |
4:27 | |||
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1.10
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Salt
Half Moon Run |
4:01 | |||
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1.11
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Crawl Back In
Half Moon Run |
3:08 |
With their fourth album Salt, transcendence, the sublime, and letting go are on the mind for the members of Montreal's Moon Run. Since Half Moon Run’s last album, A Blemish in the Great Light (2019), there’s been a global pandemic and a sea-change in the live music industry. Meanwhile, the band’s put out three releases—two EPs and a collection of reworked “isolation versions” of older songs. Plus, their fourth member, multi-instrumentalist Isaac Symonds, has moved on to a bucolic life out west.
The remaining trio—Portielje, Conner Molander, and Dylan Phillips—are also the band’s founding trio. Their fabled origin story involves a 2009 Craigslist ad, and a dingy Mile End jam space populated by a rising wave of Montreal musicians, including phenom Grimes. They spent those formative years generating not just their debut album, Dark Eyes (2012) but also the restless, six-armed entity that composes their music and performs their live show.
That sublime state of creation has produced music that everyone from The Guardian to Exclaim praises, even as they struggle to classify it. But the band doesn’t much mind what genre they’re filed under—whether it’s neoclassical dream-folk, ambient math-pop, or rustic art rock. Live or recorded, their music—at least according to one anonymous fan—“sounds like gold dust." Now, with their fourth album released, labelling it is the furthest thing from frontman Devon Portielje's mind.
“All I can say is that our last EP was looking inwards and moving onwards, and now we’re maybe looking upwards."
- Devon Portielje
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – BMG Rights Mgmt (Canada) Studio Masters
Tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 11 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit Tracks 3, 7-10 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1, 2, 4-6, 11 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit Tracks 3, 7-10 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.46 -0.50 to -0.16 | -11.87 -17.88 to -9.98 | -9.85 -15.00 to -8.30 | 6 5 to 10 | |
| 1 | You Can Let Go | -0.50 | -10.00 | -8.3 | 5 |
| 2 | Alco | -0.50 | -11.53 | -9.1 | 6 |
| 3 | Hotel in Memphis | -0.36 | -12.09 | -10.2 | 7 |
| 4 | Everyone's Moving Out East | -0.50 | -12.00 | -10.6 | 6 |
| 5 | 9beat | -0.50 | -12.55 | -10.1 | 7 |
| 6 | Dodge the Rubble | -0.16 | -11.27 | -9.2 | 5 |
| 7 | Heartbeat | -0.50 | -12.01 | -10.0 | 6 |
| 8 | Gigafire | -0.50 | -10.92 | -8.8 | 6 |
| 9 | Goodbye Cali | -0.50 | -10.38 | -8.5 | 6 |
| 10 | Salt | -0.50 | -9.98 | -8.5 | 5 |
| 11 | Crawl Back In | -0.50 | -17.88 | -15.0 | 10 |