Moon Socket "It's the End of the Trip" 7 inch (Little Mafia Records/1997)

During their tenure as a band Eric's Trip was quite the prolific band and the same could be said about all of their off shoot side projects at the time and since. In the mid to late 90s under the name Moon Socket, Guitartist/bassist Chris Thompson served up super lo fi, sappy bedroom pop that for the most part sounded like the acoustic tracks found on Eric's Trip releases-go figure! Much like Eric's Trip, the Moon Socket project in the early go around released several cassettes, singles and compilation appearances. From what I can gather the Moon Socket cassettes are even harder to come by than the Eric's Trip tapes, which is a shame but fortunately a lot of those songs have found home elsewhere including the 7 inch which I am sharing with you today. According to the sleeve of It's the End of The Trip, the first four songs are from a cassette from 1992. Something that one certainly be of interest to Eric's Trip fans in general is that a few of the Chris Thompson songs in the Eric's Trip catalog first appeared as Moon Socket songs or even appeared after the fact at times. That list of songs include: "Alone and Annoyed",  "Now A Friend", "Always There", and "Feeling Around". It's the End of the Trip and the full length album Take the Mountain  (also released in 1997) were the last releases from Moon Socket. Thompson now has a new band called Memories Attack. So if you are a fan of lo fi acoustic stuff, Eric's Trip and early Sebadoh/Sentridoh then I think you'll love Moon Socket. And if anyone is interested this is a record that I DO currently carry in my distro.

Moon Socket It's the End of The Trip track listing
1. I Want Now
2. Stupid Shyness
3. Hard Feelings
4. Swing
5. Brand New Friend
6. Clowds

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