The Moose brings its sprawling psych-rock home to recordBar

Kansas City's own psych-pop band shares a Friday bill with Corners of the Sky and King Socks & the Unrelenting Funk at recordBar on Oct. 30.

Some local bands make a record. The Moose made a double LP with 26 songs that runs two hours, and then kept playing shows like that was a normal thing to do. On Friday, they're back at recordBar.

The Moose plays recordBar on Friday, Oct. 30, on a three-band bill with Corners of the Sky and King Socks & the Unrelenting Funk. The venue's listing has a 7 p.m. start and bills the night as Corners of the Sky, King Socks and the Unrelenting Funk, and The Moose. Check recordBar's page for tickets before you head to Grand Boulevard.

The Moose describe themselves on Bandcamp as a psychedelic rock and pop band out of Kansas City, Missouri, and the record that best explains them is *Spature* — the twenty-six-song, two-hour double album The Pitch called "the sprawling psych-rock journey into madness you need right now." It's an unreasonable amount of music for a local band to put out at once, which is exactly why it's worth your time: the ambition is the selling point.

It's an unreasonable amount of music for a local band to put out at once — which is exactly the point.

The band's Bandcamp also shows where they come from as a live act. There's *Live in KC – July 2021*, a document of a hometown set, and a full album of Tame Impala covers, which tells you a fair amount about the sonic neighborhood they live in — fuzzed-out, melodic, a little cosmic. In our records, The Moose have played Kansas City more than any other market, 15 shows so far, which is the profile of a band building its audience one local room at a time.

recordBar is a good place to see that happen. The room at 1520 Grand holds just under 400, small enough that you can watch a band's hands and big enough to feel like a real Friday night. It's the kind of stage where local bills like this one get booked deep, so arrive early — a three-band night that starts at seven rewards the people who come for the whole thing.

If you haven't heard them yet, put on a side of *Spature* on the way downtown — or, more realistically, a few songs of it. Then go see what it sounds like in a room full of people from the same city. That's what a hometown show is for.

Sources: recordBar — Shows (therecordbar.com); recordBar — All Shows (therecordbar.com); The Moose — Bandcamp (themoose.bandcamp.com); The Moose — Live in KC- July 2021 (Bandcamp) (themoose.bandcamp.com); The Pitch — The Moose's Spature is the sprawling psych-rock journey into madness you need right now (thepitchkc.com)