Gypsy Moth Control get lost in the hills on new song Mulholland Hwy Son
The skies went violet as the grid fluttered in response to the quixotic release of the new single Mulholland Hwy Son, by LA shape shifting musical polyglot GYPSY MOTH CONTROL.
Mulholland Hwy Son explores the distance, the time it takes to have and then to have not, quantifying the pitfalls and what loss feels like on a hairpin turn in the hills. Where sharp angles of the desert are slowed by ancient marine build up, meeting the ocean in the brief bit of terrain that lies between Los Virgenes and the infinite pacific.
Walker, singer and composer for Gypsy Moth Control gives an account of these notions in examples of physical space, painting a pastoral night scene of our young protagonist, speeding along the spine of the Santa Monica mountains, either to or from his pharmacist, mulling a collection of losses, testing fate with the gas pedal, wondering why their time hasn’t come yet, but too hard to let anyone in.
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