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The First Man On Mars

by EL MOONO

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Modern life looks more like a dystopia every day - the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and billionaires are planning their escape to Mars. The First Man On Mars is a comment on the billionaire space race, and how we’re allowing those billions to be invested in a vanity project, rather than problems that affect us all on earth. Sometimes we feel like we’re stuck in the Truman show, with no escape from our predetermined fates. Musically, the track sums up our band’s divergent style of songwriting, with verses of world-music tinged pop suddenly juxtaposed by doom-metal sludge sections, and accentuated by the biggest riff we’ve ever written.

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Stargazing like a supernatural spread across each crevice of our sky
Curdling the cotton clouds
Yet somehow continues to lie there waiting
For what’s about to happen
Dream awake with cookies baked
And pancakes for everyone with a grinning smile
Happy as charged
First man on Mars
And now the stars are falling into place
Like a good little boy

Idolising rooks with crooks and knights in shining armour
The royals frolicking in the parlour
With looks in books
The disaster charmer
an overindulgent father
We simply remain
Our throne to claim

And now the stars are falling into place
And now the world is turning
This last embrace
Such a good little boy

Now the stars are falling into place
This world it keeps on turning
Lying through your mouldy teeth
The bliss old world keeps churning

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released January 16, 2024

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EL MOONO Brighton, UK

El Moono are back with The Waking Sun, their highly anticipated debut album, recorded at Middle Farm.
The band are further exploring their mind-bending riff writing, emotive soundscapes and expressive lyricism to create a record that will further prove their “genre-phobic” reputation. ... more

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