Moan
The vocal single from The Last Resort, sung by Ane Trolle.
Trentemøller, from The Last Resort (2007)
"Moan" was released as a single on March 12, 2007 with Ane Trolle singing. It reached three in Denmark and 30 in Flanders, and went platinum in Denmark. NPR's 2007 review said Trentemøller dedicated it to Laika, the first dog in space, and called the vocals dreamy, despairing over gently pulsing minor-key rhythms. He told Backbeat Seattle the lyrics are a simple love story, a girl missing her boyfriend, but the video made it about a dog missing its owner in outer space, with the dog singing from a satellite; the director is named in that interview as Niels Grabol, from a single source. The Trentemøller Chronicles has a remix (8:15) and a radio edit (3:32).
Setlist.fm counts about 90 performances, and on the Fixion tour it often closed the main set. A November 2024 setlist notes guitar parts borrowed from the Cure's "Lullaby". We found no covers or samples. We cannot tell whether our upload is the album version, the vocal version or the single.
On stage
- 2017-01-28, Electric Ballroom, London A Fixion tour date that included Moan.
Sources
- The Last Resort (album), Wikipedia
- Anders Trentemøller interview, Backbeat Seattle
- Dreamy and despairing, dark but sweet, NPR (2007-12-12)