Dayton’s female fronted three-piece Moira specializes in ethereal laced dream pop. They create haunting, subtle, melancholy-stricken moods and sounds purveying multi-emotions that go beyond the keyboards, drums and guitar. Their debut EP Asleep/Repeat/Awake is moody coffee house music immersed in depth of feel and creative depressive expressions. Like hearing someone cleanse and purge their soul over coffee and incense.
Alicia Grodecki’s voice carries Sarah McLachlan’s vocal delivery with the luggage of a cracked, broken heart and wounded ego while showing sun lit glimpses of hope and moving forward. Patrick Hague’s handles the beat while Aaron Hardy plays synth and bass. Touring heavily since their fall 2015 release they’ve played Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, surrounding areas and states.
“Machines” has desolation from the beginning with steam beats and subtle downcoast vocals as a melancholy mist spews from the keys slow and moody. Drums smash in with a cymbal crash. You can smell the incense burning as the drums kick up and keyboards play their opening wave.
“Midwestern Waste” opens with background atmosphere. Industrial noise cracks out like electronic racket ball with a night-shade spirited vibe. “Bones” carries emotional coldness and deep confessions spoken on vocal waves.
“You Say” could be heard in a smoking bar or jazz club, moody with multi-dimensional, emotional vocals. Despair descends letting old memories dissolve into the floor and fade away under the door.
“Blacking Out” tells the emotional weight of relationships ending and the unanswered questions that linger.
