Viking Moses New Single! Werewolves in the City!

“Werewolves in the City are a big problem...”

The great art of the seasonal musical treat has been lost—from REM covering Syd Barrett’s Dark Globe as a Christmas flexi treat or Roky Erikson’s sounds of monsterism— Werewolves in the City resurrects this tradition with its homage to Halloween.  Viking Moses moves back to the influences of Butthole Surfers and Meat Puppets, combining punk and psychedelia, the ‘60s and the ‘80s, sheer sonic fuckedup-ness and songcraft (a near unthinkable combo) in his electronic Halloween treat of ‘Werewolves in the City’; add innovation, humour, repulsiveness, big drumbeats and bone-rattling explosions as he howls at the moon ‘Werewolves in the City Are ABig Problem/Why don’t you get out of the sky and stop them/Tearing Up Children, Children in the night/Last night I found a kid’s head on my bike.’ Classic.

Viking Moses spent his childhood in the Ozarks of Missouri and was schooled in the surreality of Las Vegas. Influenced by Leonard Cohen and Kurt Cobain, Massei spent his youth at sixteen assembling banjo-led pick-up bands touring across America and opening for the final Palace show in the 90s. It was in 2003 that Brendon transmogfried into Viking Moses and began to support occasionally Jason Molina, Will Oldham and Cat Power. During his stint in Devendra Banhart’s band “White Buffalo Deer Woman Appears” people praised his genius during his two song spot “...Donned with a garland of flowers, his booming voice was truly amazing, as he ran around the stage with his arms flailing. If I would have had any extra money, I would have bought everything he had...”.
And it was his place on the freak-folk Zeitgeist compilation ‘Golden Apples of the Sun’ along with Antony and the Johnsons and Coco Rosie that Viking Moses was brought to international attention which he has followed up with Crosses released to critical acclaim on Poptones.  Expect his follow-up ‘The Parts That Show’ in 2007.

Viking Moses will be supporting Micah P Hinson on the following dates in October.

02 Oct 2006The Sage | Newcastle, UK
03 Oct 2006The ABC | Glasgow, UK
04 Oct 2006ULU | London, UK | full band show
06 Oct 2006The Social | Nottingham, UK
08 Oct 2006Whelans | Dublin, Ireland

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