hypersongs

Dripping Sun

The second single from Masana Temples, a seven-minute day-trip song.
Kikagaku Moyo, from Masana Temples (2018)

Go Kurosawa wrote it, and it was recorded in Lisbon in April 2018 with Bruno Pernadas producing. Stereogum premiered it on August 27, 2018, the same day as NPR Music, with Lars Gotrich writing. Kurosawa told NPR it is a day trip song, that on the trip you will find something that makes you feel nostalgic, and that however wild the journey, we always come back to where we belong and feel calm. He told Stereogum to get up, ride on a horse, take a walk, explore, and go back to your place and sleep. NPR hears wah-wah guitar and a fuzzed guitar melody echoed in synths, a psychedelic boogie that floats into acid folk and laid-back funk, returning to heavy riffs.

The band recorded it for KEXP on August 1, 2018, in a session published on October 5 with host Troy Nelson that also had "Tree Smoke" and "Fluffy Kosmisch", and a live version is on Live at Levitation (2021). They often paired "Entrance" into "Dripping Sun" live, and on their last US run it closed the Aladdin Theater show in Portland on September 27, 2022. We found no setlist.fm count, video, covers or samples.

On stage

Sources

  1. Kikagaku Moyo's Dripping Sun, NPR via WBGO (2018-08-27)
  2. Kikagaku Moyo, Dripping Sun, Stereogum (2018-08-27)
  3. Masana Temples, Bandcamp
  4. Kikagaku Moyo live on KEXP, KEXP (2018-10-05)