Featured Tune: "The Mourning Moon" from Will Sims
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When the Moon Refuses to Fade
Will Sims’ The Mourning Moon drapes itself over you like a cool, heavy night air that lingers long after dawn. From the first notes, it’s clear this isn’t just another indie-electronic release. Sims has stepped into new territory here, leaning fully into an electronic framework that swaps traditional instrumentation for the sleek pulse of programmed drums and the otherworldly hum of a Moog synthesizer.
The result is an atmosphere that feels suspended between dream and reality. There’s a quiet tension in the arrangement, layers of sound that seem to breathe in and out, as if alive, capturing that peculiar sight of a pale moon hanging stubbornly in a bright morning sky. It’s an image that becomes a vessel for loss, remembrance, and the strange comfort of what remains unseen but ever-present.
Working alongside Tony Correlli at Deep End Studio, Sims has created something both experimental and accessible. The track carries echoes of The Cure’s moody elegance and the hypnotic haze of Nothing But Thieves, yet it remains deeply his own. There’s a precision to the production, but it never feels sterile, it’s warm, aching, and human at its core.
The Mourning Moon isn’t background music. It’s the kind of song that quietly claims a place in your thoughts, resurfacing at odd hours, like the moon itself, soft, persistent, and impossible to ignore.