fipFM4
“Black Moon Rising” is the first track (and the first single) from Black Pumas' self-titled debut album. Black Pumas use their first track to introduce the listener to their bluesy, soul-infused sound, and their lucid, psychedelic lyrics. Though the lyrics are surreal and impressionistic, a loose concept can be discerned about a man desperately in love with a beautiful woman who he knows is bad for him and will eventually bring him pain. This dependency on lost-cause love will reoccur later on the album with the song “OCT 33.” Read more on Last.fm.
Black Pumas is led by the creative partnership between Grammy Award-winning guitarist / producer Adrian Quesada (1977) and songwriter Eric Burton (1989). Burton is a relative newcomer who arrived in Austin in 2015 after busking his way across the country from Los Angeles, while Quesada has a storied reputation for playing in bands like Grupo Fantasma and Brownout while also producing acclaimed projects like 2018’s ‘Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul.’
After the two connected via friends in the Austin scene, they began to collaborate on a new sound that transmutes soul into something idiosyncratically modern. Reminiscent of Ghostface Killah and Motown in equal measure, this original sound ensured that Black Pumas’ weekly residency at C-Boys quickly became “the hottest party in town” (Austin-American Statesman).
In June of 2019 their self-titled debut LP arrived, which helped to earn the duo a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.