Moonshake was primarily the brainchild of Dave Callahan from the Wolfhounds, and much of their material reflects the sort of abrasive sounds you'd expect from a band with that pedigree. In their early days, however, they were a collaborative effort between Callahan and Margaret Fiedler, who went on to form Laika. Under Fiedler's influence, the music was still quite experimental and sometimes jarringly discordant, but tempered by her soft voice and melodic ear. The collaboration came to an (apparently unhappy) end after one album and a couple EPs, though Callahan continued to use the name for a few years more.
This was from their imaginatively-titled First EP in 1991. I remember when NME (or maybe it was Melody Maker) reviewed it they said that "at soon as we put it on everyone in the office could tell it was a Creation release". Oddly, given the year that it was, they didn't mean it as a compliment.
Gorgeous track, anyway.
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