Many Moons (album)
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| Studio album by Martin Courtney | |
| Released | October 30, 2015 |
| Recorded | 2012–2015 |
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| Length | 37:18 |
| Language | English |
| Label | Domino |
| Producer | Jarvis Taveniere |
| Singles from Many Moons | |
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Includes Courtney's initials, "MCIV", embossed on the front cover
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Consequence of Sound | B |
| DIY | |
| Drowned in Sound | 7/10 |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 |
| The Guardian | |
| Mojo | |
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| Pitchfork | (7.0/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
Many Moons is the debut solo album by Martin Courtney, the frontman of the American indie rock band Real Estate, released on October 30, 2015 on Domino Records.
The material for Many Moons began as a stress-relief outlet for Courtney ahead of the recording of Real Estate's 2014 album Atlas.Woods' Jarvis Taveniere had access to the studio before the recording sessions for Atlas and asked Courtney to make a single. According to Courtney, the session snowballed into five songs they thought would become an EP. Once they had even more songs completed, Courtney and Taveniere decided to release a full album when the recording and touring for Atlas was complete. The album's material accrued sporadically from studio sessions across Brooklyn, New York between 2013 and 2015 with Taveniere and Courtney.
The album's producer, Jarvis Taveniere, also plays on the album alongside Julian Lynch and Real Estate’s Matt Kallman. The album's songs are rounded out with orchestral arrangements.
Courtney stated that Many Moons was named a solo album because he couldn't come up with band name for that he was satisfied with for Taveniere and himself.
The album was recorded at Rear House in Brooklyn, New York and Thump Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Jarvis Taveniere acting as the producer. The album was subsequently mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, Oregon.
Courtney's marriage to his fiancée Heather Joyce Courtney in October of 2012 and the birth of their daughter contribute to the album's themes of Courtney’s transition into family life and fatherhood.
The album's deluxe vinyl was released as a limited edition of 500 coke bottle clear vinyl LPs.
A video for the album's second single "Northern Highway" was released on September 2, 2015. The video was directed by Rob Hatch-Miller and Puloma Basu of Production Company Productions in upstate New York. Zumic described the video with, "The no frills video sees Martin playing electric and acoustic guitars under highways, on railroad tracks, and in front of nondescript buildings, with occasional landscape shots thrown in."
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