Arthur Moon’s debut release—a dark, playful, electro-tinged EP called Our Head—is slated for an expanded release on Velvet Elk Records in March of 2017. The New York-based independent label fell in love with the band after their dynamic, breakthrough performance at Brooklyn’s celebrated new venue National Sawdust in April. Early previews of the “intoxicating” record were leaked this spring, to much acclaim from publications like NOWNESS, Noisey, and Stereogum. Arthur Moon is the moniker of composer/singer Lora-Faye Åshuvud, whose unconventional, polymathic approach to composition evokes the idiosyncratic ethos of bands like Radiohead and tUnE-yArDs. Åshuvud writes her lyrics using cut up newspaper and magazine articles, and describes the process of composing the music as similarly collage-like. “On the best days,” she said in an interview with LPR this summer, “it feels kind of like playing a rousing game of Exquisite Corpse – except only with myself.” The Velvet Elk Records release will include an icy, climactic cover of The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (which she had re-titled simply "Beatles" for her version), among other new recordings. Some tracks joyfully disorient a listener, inverting the rules of pop composition (see “Boxing” and “Bold Affair”). Others explore the way this disorientation inflects our relationships (see “Room”) and political systems (“Wind-Up”). The Arthur Moon band also includes Martin D. Fowler (composer for This American Life and Limetown), Nick Lerman, Aviva Jaye, and Dave Palazola.