Cuticles – Howling Moons: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day

Oamaru band, Cuticles, celebrate the release of their EP, Howling Moons, with this brand new video for the song of the same name.

Here is the blurb with more:

Filmed during the startling transition between sunlight and dusk on Kaitorete Spit south of Lyttleton by the highly regarded director Martin Sagadin, comes this dreamy new anthem from Oamaru’s Cuticles.

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A disgruntled group of metal detectors act out the songs escapist themes but ultimately end up content & giddy around a fire underneath their own found moon. The song’s lyrics paint a surreal world of ‘lousy pricks, stale doffs & vapes’ which smell like ‘the stench of gravel’ and make a strong case for abandoning the confines of your own personal hell in search of more adventurous freedoms.

This song is part of the recently released Howling Moons ep which comes from the sessions for the forthcoming follow up to the 2023 lp Major Works out on Siltbreeze records. Cuticles are currently in the process of organizing a European tour in 2026 and hope to visit the North Island early in the new year. 

About Cuticles:

Cuticles are back and mean small business. Cuticles have returned with the sharp, and at times, chaotic ep Howling Moons. The bands core line-up of Matt Plunkett, Austen McMillan and Tom Havard is now completed by the musical firebrand Folina Vili and the brilliant young newcomer Albert King who share duties on keyboards, vocals and guitar. This ep showcases a variety of different Cuticle versions from the opening queasy acid bath of Product Of His Time, the starry anomaly of  Howling Moons and then the final sublime or declined destruction of nostalgia on Camping Holiday. Despite the radio silence of the last year or so it has in fact been a rich & sweatily productive time in Cuticle-land.

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