Arthur Moon

So delighted that this object exists in the world, a limited run of Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! on cherry red vinyl from our friends at @vinylmeplease with a beautiful booklet of odd snack recipes and credits (aka nutritional facts) designed by @oliviadesalve // get one while you can at the link

Food, music

Who else left @nationalsawdust puffy? 😭 Thank you to all of the artists who made @thehumseries possible at The Agenda Festival this year. We have one last killer performance coming to you from @kinlawww on Wednesday at @saabrooklyn Car Park + 2 more industry panels at @sleepwalk.nyc throughout the rest of the month. -link in bio to RSVP 🎟️

Still reeling from our show at @publicrecordsnyc a few weeks ago. Photos and videos from @rachluba @a.rom @janrather

This Saturday, July 19 at @publicrecordsnyc will be my first Arthur Moon show in over a year. I’ve been tucked away in my basement studio, hard at work on the new record all this time, perseverating, getting lost in the sauce, etc. One evening, in the midst of tweaking a snare drum sound imperceptibly for an hour, I realized that this music needs to breathe a bit (with live human musicians!) before I can finish it. So we’ll be performing the entirety of the unreleased record, live in-the-round for you, just this one time. Part of the thing with this new record is that it wants a little pomp and ridiculousness—we’ll have multiple drummers, lots of singers, horns, etc. I’ve decided to confront my greatest fear of ONLY SINGING and not playing any instruments on stage, which sort of makes me feel like a clown. Terrifying? But I think this music demands a high risk of failure. Anyway, I’d be honored if you would come witness this thing cuz it’s only gonna happen once.

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Music!

Missing free throws and other exercises in joy and loss

Entirely enchanted by theatre. Especially when it’s on a farm like this @sketchbooktheatre production that @martindfowler and I just composed for and performed in. Pic by @madsdailydotcom Video by @livetodream_dreamtolive

Recorded this month for the new Arthur Moon record which involves a 6-piece percussion group (some playing instruments I made out of trash) @attisattisattis isn’t pictured because he took these dreamy pictures.

I am so stoked and honored to have received a bronze cube from the #adcawards @theoneclubforcreativity & @artdirectorsclub on my work for @helloarthurmoon ’s album Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! Thank you Lora-Faye for making great music and being a fab collaborator in making weird and wonderful things! 🥚🚬🍊🐟🍎 Design, photography, and art direction for the avant-pop group Arthur Moon’s second studio album and record, Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! The band’s lead, Lora-Faye Åshuvud, wrote this album as a chaotic exploration of queerness and gender. The album’s design is very photo-heavy and picks up motifs in the lyrics to create surrealistic imagery and embrace organized chaos — sometimes beautiful and grotesque. The visuals work hard to embody the band’s music and tone. As Lora-Faye told Brooklyn Magazine, “I wanted to make a record that felt like it expressed the cohesiveness of all that in one experience, but also this fractured incoherence of that experience.” When the album’s record sleeve is opened up completely, the photos on the front cover reveal the record’s title, Chaos! Chaos! Chaos!, abstractly written out in objects. On the inside of the sleeve, instead of classically labeling the record sides a and b, the sides are labeled with eggs and orange imagery (which also correspond to the artwork on the vinyl record inside). Inside the sleeve with the vinyl record, you will find a 24-page booklet that includes bizarre imagery, grotesque recipes, iconic quotes, lyrics to all of the songs, and the record “Nutritional Facts” (aka – credits). These quotidian objects have created a visual language and system that has encompassed all aspects of the album release — this includes not only the album itself but is also carried through the single release covers, videos, posters, t-shirts, and stickers released in tandem with the record. The images were also translated into videos for select singles. These videos played on Spotify and were used across social assets.