I'm agreeing with the others here that the guitars on this are very reminiscent of God Is an Astronaut.

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
Oh, but where's the fun in that? 

 Cynaera wrote: 
Remember to keep a window or two open when you're painting, Cynaera.   ; )

I really like this song, but the band name? Sometimes I think bands just eat peyote and go with their vision.

Scenario:

"Okay - we need a name. Everyone write a different word on each of your ten slips of paper."  (Scratchy sound of pencils scribbling on paper.)
"Great. We have about forty words. Um, where's the vodka?"
Each person points at someone else.  "HE drank it."
"Never mind. We'll flip to see who draws the name.  Where's the quarter?"
Each person points at someone else. "HE took it."
"Gah!  Forget it. I'LL pick the words. How many words do we want in our name?"
Confused glances from one to another as they ponder.
"Holy galloping Geronimo - can't you guys decide on ANYTHING?"
Confused glances from one to another as they ponder.
"All right - here we go.....  First word is:   MOON!"
Cheers from the rest of the group.
"Second word is:  CAKE!"
Cheers from the rest of the group, gradually tapering off as confusion sets in.
"Um, which one of you jerks wrote CAKE?"
Sheepish voice from the back of the room:  "Well, I was hungry."

Nice to hear a russian band here!

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
Not to be confused with MoonPie, however.


Good tune.

nice.

great song!

Boring and MONOTONOUS!  Argh.

7 -> 8 - sounds better the more I hear it...

reminds me a little of hum

 rluking wrote: 
I could have sworn it was God is an Astronaut until I looked at the playlist...

Bumping it up a notch because I've really grown to like this - takes a while to sort out the textures.

8 9.  Like it more every time I hear it.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/05/a-thousand-trillion-suns/

Oh my god, it's full of stars..

I think it sounds like late 80's Cure.  I expect to hear Robert come in with vocals somewhere around the 4 minute mark, right when you are sick of the jam.....

Sounds good to me!

The best sound out of Russia since the Sputnik!

 99 wrote: 

right after they changed it to "God is an Astronaut."

Well, they may not be on Wikipedia and such, but they are on Facebook. Here's their bio for anyone interested:

Mooncake is a young post rock band from Moscow comprised of two guitars, a bass, cello/keyboards and drums. The music of Mooncake resides in the state of permanent development and, moreover, it is a personal experiment of each of band’s members.

LINE UP:

Pavel Smirnov - guitar
Nikolay Bulanov - cello, keyboards
Anton Marchenko - bass
Leonid Kurashov - drums
***
Mikhail Degtyarev - visualization

The debut single "More Oxygen, I Said..." was released July 2007.

The LP "Lagrange Points" released May 2008.

——————————————————————————————————

Press about Mooncake:

"...Their music sounds as if "Mogwai" decided to speed up and hit the British TOP-10..." ("Time Out Moscow" Magazine)

 rtrudeau wrote: 

RAR is an old compression format.  In and of itself, a RAR file is not dangerous.  But a RAR file can contain anything: viruses, worms, wide-angle pictures of dogs in funny hats, you just don't know!

This particular RAR file appears to contain MP3s of the CD single of Mooncake's Cast the Route, but I'm deleting it without playing it, so I'll never know for sure! 

 Nadine wrote: 
Was thinking the same thing

Can't seem to find any info on the intratubes about this band - but I like what I hear as music to code by.

 auburntigerrich wrote: 
bump

What! Stop this!!!!!

If you know Nine Billion you should like this!

This is just plain delicious....

Nice song...

If you like this, you'll like Sennen!

www.sennen.org.uk