Moontype is the project of Margaret McCarthy, Ben Cruz, and Emerson Hunton — three friends that met at Oberlin and moved to Chicago shortly after.
In the time since debuting back in 2017, the three-piece have played with the likes of Peaer, Calyx, and The Knees, and recorded a debut album, which is due out next year.
Today, they're unleashing the first single from the LP: a supremely lush track called "Ferry." On the surface, it's a uniquely Midwest fantasy — its not hard to imagine the Lake Michigan waves slap against the hull as a new shoreline drifts into focus — but the escapism of "Ferry" stems from a less favorable place. "It's a song about the loss of friendship, not when it breaks apart quickly and devastatingly but when it slowly.
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