Cancer House - The Moth

Cancer House
The Moth
Motion Ward
USA, 2026
LP

Cobwebbed post-rock debut from the Chicago quartet, a gorgeous, grey, melancholic haze. Quickly tipped as many people’s AOTY, and it’s not hard to see why.


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FROM THE LABEL: 

"A friend of mine told me he had visited the place that Cancer House live and record. He said they jammed together all afternoon. In the moment, in the zone so to speak, he became more and more convinced that what they were making together was the best music he had ever been involved with. As the afternoon drifted by, second by revelatory second, he began making grandiose plans to release the recording. By the time it was dark outside the windows he imagined it as a future lost classic, a key live document of a scene, a moment and an aesthetic. He thought about all the records he loved. He thought about the great, little known, statements of lo-fi, downer indie: dark, sweet, crawling guitar music by bands like Farewood, Bedhead, UN or The Sonora Pine. He could even picture the sleeve down to the last detail.

The session ended and as they were all packing up he asked about the recording. And someone said ‘oh, we weren’t recording."

-Jack Rollo