Old Moon is the recording project of Vermont-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tom Weir, a longtime presence in the New England underground whose work has steadily evolved from jangling post-punk into something stranger and more atmospheric.
The project first emerged in 2019 with a series of self-recorded releases that leaned heavily on chiming guitars, pounding basslines, and the shadowy romanticism of classic post-punk. Early EPs like Past Lives and Messenger established Old Moon’s core language: driving rhythms, melodic hooks, and dreamlike lyrics shaped by isolation and memory.
The 2021 full-length Altars expanded that sound while embracing a raw, funereal feel rooted in Weir’s lo-fi home recording techniques and expert production from Shaun Durkan that carried echoes of Blitz and For Against. The record situated Old Moon within a lineage of introspective post-punk while hinting at stranger directions to come.
Over the years that followed, Weir began slowly dismantling the elements that initially defined the project, and the result of that transformation is INNOCENCE, Old Moon’s fourth and most distinctive and immersive record to date. Guitars have receded, and distorted drum machines have replaced live percussion. Vocals are now warped, slowed, and submerged beneath layers of ambience.
But despite the shift in Weir’s sonic palette, the emotional center of Old Moon remains intact. The songs on INNOCENCE still orbit themes that have always defined the project: memory, longing, and the strange beauty hidden inside every day moments.
Old Moon is the recording project of Vermont-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tom Weir, a longtime presence in the New England underground whose work has steadily evolved from jangling post-punk into something stranger and more atmospheric.
The project first emerged in 2019 with a series of self-recorded releases that leaned heavily on chiming guitars, pounding basslines, and the shadowy romanticism of classic post-punk. Early EPs like Past Lives and Messenger established Old Moon’s core language: driving rhythms, melodic hooks, and dreamlike lyrics shaped by isolation and memory.
The 2021 full-length Altars expanded that sound while embracing a raw, funereal feel rooted in Weir’s lo-fi home recording techniques and expert production from Shaun Durkan that carried echoes of Blitz and For Against. The record situated Old Moon within a lineage of introspective post-punk while hinting at stranger directions to come.
Over the years that followed, Weir began slowly dismantling the elements that initially defined the project, and the result of that transformation is INNOCENCE, Old Moon’s fourth and most distinctive and immersive record to date. Guitars have receded, and distorted drum machines have replaced live percussion. Vocals are now warped, slowed, and submerged beneath layers of ambience.
But despite the shift in Weir’s sonic palette, the emotional center of Old Moon remains intact. The songs on INNOCENCE still orbit themes that have always defined the project: memory, longing, and the strange beauty hidden inside every day moments.