Leaving - Moonfish (2024)
A duo of London jazz and electronic scenesters, Moonfish make smooth and crafty downtempo music that’s has a foot in each of those worlds.
I’m writing this on a Sunday. I always like to find the chillest thing I’ve set up for my week to play Sunday morning. My week, and sometimes even my Sunday, gets hectic quickly, and I’ve come to value a little pause in the morning to have a little moment of beauty.
Sunday as a “day of rest” is kind of drilled into our modern American culture of Christian traditions that we don’t think too deeply about. It’s a little ironic, because I know a lot of people spend a lot of time and energy putting on the production of being Christian that takes up much of their Sunday morning. When I was a kid, Sundays were busy mornings that involved getting up roughly as early as I would for school, and spending a good chunk of my time at the church for services, sunday school, youth group activities, and various rehearsals for my parents’ involvement in the church’s music program.
I, being mostly heathen, am mostly free from that pressure. Those are mostly good memories, but as an adult I’ve come to value some peaceful mind-gathering time on a Sunday morning much more highly than well-meaning but empty busyness. My only stab at “going to church” as an adult was the local Unitarian church of which I’m ostensibly still a member, but even that proved too taxing on my relaxing Sunday mornings to stick with.
One exception to this is that I do love going to a Sunday morning film. There’s usually good matinee pricing and you often have the theater entirely or mostly to yourself. I jokingly refer to it as “movie church,” a chance to do something I don’t take time for elsewhere in the week that helps me differentiate Sunday from some other day.
