Watch the video for El Moono’s new single, The First Man On Mars

Rising Brighton alt.rockers El Moono have unleashed a new single and announced details of their debut album.

The quartet will be releasing highly-anticipated full-length The Waking Sun on May 10 via Lockjaw Records, with lead single The First Man On Mars out now.

Of the new song, El Moono explain: “Modern life looks more like a dystopia every day – the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and billionaires are planning their escape to Mars.

“The First Man On Mars is a comment on the billionaire space race, and how we’re allowing those billions to be invested in a vanity project, rather than problems that affect us all on earth. Sometimes we feel like we’re stuck in the Truman Show, with no escape from our predetermined fates.

“Musically, the track sums up our band’s divergent style of songwriting, with verses of world-music tinged pop suddenly juxtaposed by doom-metal sludge sections, and accentuated by the biggest riff we’ve ever written.”

Watch the video below:

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