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Moon Ruin // Orchid Eaton - Pine Hollow

Moon Ruins Slow Down Ego inhabits a world where gauzy vocal washes glide across sinewy melody, soulful horn charts rise from the sonic mist only to fall away as a twinkling piano runs joust playfully with syncopated electronic percussion. Palpably atmospheric and profoundly transporting, Slow Down Ego is the sound of persistence and sacrifice, born in that flash of a creative gap flitting between real-life obligation.

Slow Down Ego is the creation of Jared Bartman, but it was not formed in a vacuum. Birthed in the refuge of makeshift basement studios, and featuring co-conspirators Mike Noyce and Liam OBrien, plus Bartmans wife and children, the record is a tribute to the potential of partnership and the strength it provides; it is a document of community, of friendship, of family.

Orchid Eaton:

What do I have to say? I guess that depends.

These days I breathe cleaner. I spend more time in a crystalline fog of my own design. But I made the confines, set the rules. And I permit the world to be as it will. Ive always enjoyed listening anyways.

Stasis. But also harmony. Static harmony.

Also, to be unafraid as I can be. To rock my sometimes circular feelings to sleep like a doting father. Because Ive learned how to do that. To nurture. And to continue, however futilely, to throw a layer of suppressive soil over the ego.

So here we go.