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"Possibly one of the most genuinely involving noise projects I've come across recently... Each piece sounds like they've laid their hands on the instruments for the very first time and are mightily pissed off about it... Blood Moon sound something like early King Crimson if they had been twenty years later and spent most of their time undergoing experiments with Electro Convulsive Shock Therapy... Sonic colour mixing through liquidisation."
Honest Music for Dishonest Times fanzine, link.

"Out of chaos, they say, comes order, and there’s something of that truth to Blood Moon. There’s also a strange sense of beauty. On one level, the music makes no sense; on another, the swirling waves of distortion and endless anticipation present something labyrinthine and attractively hypnotic. It is art as music, music as art and as brilliantly leftfield as it comes."
Chris Long, BBC.co.uk

"Although there’s little point in trying to describe their racket other than to say it’s wholly unneighbourly, the overall effect created by these Manny morons is similar to Israeli outfits such as Poochlatz and Barbara, though considerably more tuneful due to Blood Moon’s compassionate (though too occasional) use of sax and piano (albeit ring-modulated to fuck)."
- Julian Cope, Head Heritage .co.uk

“...the vast majority of people would probably shake their heads at this (at the very least) and baulk at its being music at all; ever since Lou Reed unleashed "Metal Machine Music" (echoes of which are definitely present here) in 1975 - and probably before - what is and isn't music has been much debated.”
“It's a journey - not an easy one at times, but somehow by the end the title of this remarkable symphony (for that's what it is, in a sense, "album" doesn't really do it justice) makes some kind of sense. A quite stunning debut.”
- Cath Aubergine Manchester Music .co.uk review of 'The Birth of Tragedy'

"If I were to make love to mannequins dressed as lions I'd probably be listening to Blood Moon." - Zradio

"Blood Moon are one of the most exciting bands currently operating in Manchester's "post"(whatever) underworld. Calling themselves, somewhat mysteriously, Magenta Ray & Analogue they start off slow, dark and almost atonal; she's dragging distortion from the pit of hell through a bass and he's doing something similar with a sequencer; it's like some wonderfully fucked up mutant Satanic take on ambient. And then it gets louder, more distorted; she's on guitar and he's on drums, twisting through sheets of blistering discord. It seems at least part improvised but not unstructured as they crash towards their final destination; a saxophone screams like a trapped animal as the bass is trampled underfoot until the whole room seems to be vibrating."
- Cath Aubergine Manchester Music .co.uk

Transcript of live radio session for EOMS on All fm
Kate: "You make a lot of noise for two people."
Paddy: "I was very worried for that saxophone then. Don't know if you could hear that but it was getting battered on a drum."

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
Miles Davis

Photo by Lucy Burrows