With their third album, Muna moves from cult indie-pop favorites to something that more closely resembles a fully-fledged pop act.
I’m a few minutes late to my Zoom with Muna, and before I can even chime in to let them know I’m on the call—all three members are beaming in from their homes around Los Angeles—they’re in full swing. “Let me remind you:” says keyboardist-guitarist Naomi McPherson, aping the imperious voice of the Zoom robot. “They can record that I’m speaking tofrom Target right now,” adds fellow guitarist Josette Maskin, who gets a hearty laugh from lead singer Katie Gavin.
With their third album, Muna moves from cult indie-pop favorites to something that more closely resembles a fully fledged pop act, if not in scaleyet, then certainly in ambition. For anyone listening to its wall-to-wall bangers for the first time, it’s likely the second track, “What I Want,” that will get their motors fired up, and maybe even blow the engines. “I wanna dance in the middle of a gay bar,” Gavin sings over a roaring slice of synth-pop so brilliantly constructed it’s almost rude.
“I think so much of life as a marginalized person does exist in fantasy and the realm of radical imagination,” they continue. “I think that’s always been a part of the Muna story, but this challenge to ourselves was just like, oh, man, imagine if that would have been possible? Absolute LOL. Unless?”
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