Frankie Sunswept & The Silver Moons “Nostalgia”

sfilzen — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:34:32 +0000

Frankie Sunswept & The Silver Moons “Nostalgia” 2025, limited edition “Kaleidoscopic Sunset” vinyl, Romanus Records (sort of).* Dreamy psych garage: think King Gizzard but much lighter and brighter. Like tripping at the beach on a sunny day (vs late, dark nights under starry skies with the Lizard Wizards). Frankie Sunswept has a cazillion releases under various headings: solo under that moniker, under what I think is his real name (Frank Hoier) and then as part of the band Crushed Out, who were active from 2010 until 2018. The Silver Moons is his latest project, a six piece that formed in 2024 in New York. Their what I suppose can be called debut album, Nostalgia, seems to be a mix of previously released Sunswept solo material, including the title track “Nostalgia” originally released in 2019, both “Dream Eyes” (great psych-pop!) and “Melting Summer” from 2020 (1970s tropical/Mediterranean trippy), and “Dog Days” from 2021. Others seem to be newer material, like “Tears of a Crocodile” and my top pick, “Futureless” which is has a super kicked back cool hypnotic psych vibe.

*The Romanus label does not appear anywhere on the record, cover or lyric insert. However I got the LP directly from the Romanus label so I know they manufactured and distributed it. Not sure why Frankie didn’t include it as the label for this release; his previous solo release Turning from 2021 does sport the Romanus label.

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Frankie Sunswept “Turning”

sfilzen — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:51:08 +0000

Frankie Sunswept “Turning” 2021. Romanus Records. Limited edition tricolor variant. His debut LP is a collection of thirteen tracks from his song-of-the-month project started in 2018 after going solo; Frankie (real name Frank Hoier) was in Crushed Out from 2010-2017. Besides his solo work, he also is in the “cosmic r&b” band The Sunwrays (one song on the LP, “This Bleeding Heart,” was recorded with The Sunwrays). Until now I was completely unacquainted with his work but I will literally procure anything that Romanus Records releases, so here we are! Overall it leans lightly psychedelic – more gentle frolicking in the sunny meadow Beatles-esque (with slide guitar) style of pop psychedelia than some of the heavier stuff out there. Good examples of that are the tracks “Turning Toward Me,” “Light of the Heart” and “See Through.” He also goes California-sun psychedelic, a surfer just a little stoned, on the aptly titled “Surfer” and spacey cosmic on “The Moon & I.” One of my favorite songs is the garage-trippy “Some Days I Don’t Want to See the Sun.” The final track, “Fantasy,” unfortunately does not appear on this LP and is only available on the digital download version (I think). It’s a cover of a song by his father, John Hoier, who was in the 60′s band The Messengers and when he was with the band their song “That’s the Way a Woman Is” (written by Hoier, on Rare Earth/Motown Records) went to #62 on the US charts. Of interest probably only to me, John Hoier is originally from New Holstein, Wisconsin, a very small town not far from where I grew up in rural milk-n-cheese country in the northeastern part of the state.

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