"Filters the radio sounds of 30 years ago through an Aughts asethetic. Look no further to understand why a good thing never has to die."
American Songwriter Magazine
"A late contender for album of the year."
Transmissions UK
"One small step for guitar pop!"
Pop Matters
"We Landed on the Moon! has a certain brightness about it that is invigorating.This band is tight and memorable."
Flagpole Magazine
"Sometimes you just need to dance. Let this Baton Rouge band fill your ears with their dance-y take on 90's rock"
3Hive.com
"You will find this lodged in your head with no hope of removing it anytime soon"
Side One Track One
"Bloody brilliant. A great little record."
Incendiary Magazine
"Get your dancing shoes out and throw on your indie spirit sweater and dance your ass off to 'These Little Wars.'"
Frantik
"If Blondie had ever sung indie rock songs; then, she would have fit in perfectly with We Landed on the Moon!"
Blurt Magazine
"if you like super energetic, angsty 1980s-style tunes about failed love affairs and unsatisfactory men, this is your ticket."
Pop Matters
"They will be the best thing that you’ve heard this week, too."
Shuchow.com
"I’m already beginning to count the number of times that I’ll be putting it on repeat."
Instrumental Analysis
"These songs achieve orbit and never return to earth."
Aiding and Abetting
"Writing great pop music is a balancing act and We Landed on the Moon! has found the sweet spot on the see-saw with its new album These Little Wars."
225 Magazine
"Disturbingly cool and sweetly lovelorn.. Pop perfection"
Losing Today
"A slick pop ready meal, just re-heat and serve."
Americana UK
"These Little Wars is handcrafted to suit any spontaneous dance party; at once both light and fun, while still finding room to wade among thought provoking and uplifting verses."
Amplifier Magazine
"If you have fond memories of the spinART and Slumberland scenes, you may enjoy These Little Wars quite a bit."
Delusions of Adequacy
"We have liftoff. 'These Little Wars' is a good album"
The Devil has the Best Tuna
"These Little Wars reminds me of the spirited indie music I started listening to as far back as the 80's."
Cerulean's Love of Music
Sounds Like
fuzzy baby ducks, furry baby kitties, and baby baby babies.
We Landed on the Moon! is John, Melissa, Josh, Jon and Spence.
Long ago, they made their first album, We Landed on the Moon! and then, by dumb luck or perhaps because of the tasty astronaut ice cream they gave with each record, radio stations across the country played it. People clapped and cheered and whistled at their Baton Rouge shows (those who could whistle)- enough that they decided to go play shows for far away people in a van that ran out of freon every hundred miles or so.
They became experts on convenience stores across the country. They sang and played and danced and drank, and learned things that you just don't learn at home- that the cops in NYC's Chinatown are surprisingly civil even if your host wants to throw a microwave out his front door at 4 am, and that there's no tougher walk than dragging your equipment across the crowded sidewalks of SXSW. They got to play music in Toronto and DC and all sorts of cities they wanted to see, and they got to do it together.
And even more amazingly, people started showing up to sing their songs with them everywhere they went. In Dec of 2008, they released their 2nd record, These Little Wars. It was named Album of the Week by an Italian music webzine. This made the band want to make even more music, and to eat pizza.
And so they did.
And somewhere over the course of it all, they found out exactly what they did best. Play loud music for people who want to listen.
We Landed on the Moon's new record "This Will Be One for the Books" is the perfect storm of 8 months of frenzied music writing, the band's energetic live show, and the blistering fun of what happens when people really enjoy making music together. Recorded in six blissful days at Fudge Studios in New Orleans, the record will be flying into your eardrums in late 2009.
We Landed on the Moon! just finished successful shows at the CMJ Music Festival in NYC and the world renowned Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans. Also check out their performance on Toyota Free Yr Radio. They will be on the road January through February with the toast of Champaign, IL, Elsinore.
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