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Entertainment Close Entertainment Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Entertainment Column Close Column Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Column Music Close Music Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Music Room for the Moon is thrillingly weird experimental pop Kate NV’s 2020 record is a groovy middle finger to conventional music. Kate NV’s 2020 record is a groovy middle finger to conventional music. by Terrence O'Brien Close Terrence O'Brien Weekend Editor Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Terrence O'Brien Apr 12, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC Link Share Gift I mean, I guess it kinda looks like the moon? Image: Kate NV / RVNG Intl. Part Of What we’re listening to, watching, and reading right now. see all updates Terrence O'Brien Close Terrence O'Brien Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. For obvious reasons , I’ve had Moon on the mind all week. So I was trying to figure out what I should recommend this week that would thematically fit. Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks is incredible, and if you haven’t listened to it, go do that now. But it also seemed a bit on the nose. Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool also came to mind. But it also felt a bit obvious. Then I remembered Kate NV’s Room for the Moon , a record I had on repeat in 2020. Russian artist Kate Shilonosova chases ideas across 11 tracks inspired by Russian and Japanese pop from the ‘70s and ‘80s, as well as children’s movies. This obviously leads Room for the Moon to indulge its most whimsical impulses. It’s a fairytale rendered in snappy Talking Heads-esque bass, proggy synths, and reverbed drum machines. The opener “Not Not Not” is almost goofy, its chaotic melodies constantly dancing around each other in a perpetually disorienting way. It lurches forward asymetrically, grooving like a flat tire. The instrumental “Da Na” follows, drawing on a familiar yet slightly uncanny palette of sounds. The clarinet (?) drifts in and out of dissonance as if drunk. The tuned percussion elements flit around what might be a kenari seed shell shaker or someone running their fingers over the tines of a comb. It’s truly impossible to tell, and both seem as likely as the other. “Sayonara (Full Moon Version)” is the fantastical daydream counterpart to Oingo Boingo’s nightmare new wave theatrics. The least strange track on the record is probably “Plans,” which fully embraces 80s dance pop aesthetics. But even that song finds room for a minute-long instrumental passage featuring a bleating, almost atonal saxophone solo. While the sounds are strange, uneasy, and almost queasy at times, the songs are light and fantastical. Despite not understanding the lyrics, which are mostly in Russian, it’s impossible not to get a sense of hope from them. Kate NV’s Room for the Moon is not a somber lunar lullaby, but the pleasant dreams of an innocent mind. Kate NV’s Room for the Moon is available on Bandcamp and most major streaming services, including Qobuz , Deezer , Apple Music , YouTube Music , and Spotify . Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates. Terrence O'Brien Close Terrence O'Brien Weekend Editor Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Terrence O'Brien Column Close Column Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Column Entertainment Close Entertainment Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Entertainment Music Close Music Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Music Music Review Close Music Review Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Music Review More in: What we’re listening to, watching, and reading right now. Los Thuthanaka’s Wak’a is a mellower follow-up to last year’s surprise Pitchfork favorite Terrence O'Brien Apr 5 Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer Terrence O'Brien Mar 29 This is pure joy. Terrence O'Brien Mar 29 Most Popular Most Popular Is the ‘Holy Grail of batteries’ finally ready to bless us with its presence? The Hisense UR9 is a great first shot against OLED’s bow The AI code wars are heating up Allow me to explain why I love this camera that can’t shoot color Continuous glucose monitoring made me
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