Justin Robertson's Five Green Moons album Moon 1, out a year ago, was a Bagging Area 2024 favourite. Happily Five Green Moons returns for late 2025, this time with Brix Smith on board with a new track Boudicca- named after the Queen of the Iceni people of South Eastern England who led a major uprising against the conquering imperial forces of ancient Rome.
Dub is still very much the foundations of Five Green Moons along with some post- punk dread and some weirded out, wired folk. Justin's calling it pastoral dub which definitely fits. There's an album to follow at the end of the month and if it's all as diverting and enjoyable as Boudicca we'll have another Five Green Moons album soundtracking the end of a calendar year.
Justin and Brix have crossed paths before. In 2022 Justin's Deadstock 33s and Brix collaborated on Brix Goes Tubular, a Bandcamp digital only EP, Brix's vocals on to of a rubbery bassline, post- punk/ dance sound. The dub version stripped it back and added some bleepery to produce Caribbean sounding dub.
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Fantastic song. Looking forward to the album
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