Manipulators (GRCL01) - CD - 2003


  1. Whales in a fountain of speed -
  2. Critical anxiety -
  3. The dark side of static evolution -
  4. Kill and shine -
  5. Look through the flash kaleidoscope ... -
  6. Ruby with wings -
  7. The distress of delight -
  8. Fast blast -
  9. Serengeti -
  10. The illiterate: all is fair in love and war -
  11. Fix -
  12. Disconnected -
  13. Deliberate me -
   The first album by Moonman , "Manipulators" distills an indie-pop cleverly adding hints of fresh and spontaneous electronica, with complex and surprising structures.
   Where introspective but powerful songwriting meets luminous guitars and vertuous machines that serve the melodies to give a singular piece of work in which moonman’s voice, at times aerial or at others dark and strikingly odd, evokes the likes of Radiohead, Blonde Redhead or a kind of masculine Björk with an adventurous background canvas reminiscent of Aphex Twin, The Cure or Sonic Youth.

“Moonman is a musician to follow closely: his music is like an electronic and acoustic geyser of sheer beauty blending synthetic sounds that are both cold and white-hot, luminous guitars and hypnotic rhythms, up or downtempo.”
www.infratunes.com

“One admires the simple complexity of this record”
www.adecouvrirabsolument.com

“A jewel of electro pop-rock”
www.foutraque.com

“One is quickly grabbed by this bewitching electro-pop”
Magazine Longueur d’ondes