{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Blue Moon Set | type = Album | artist = Seamus Ó Muíneacháin | cover = Seamus O'Muineachain -Blue Moon Set Album Cover.jpg | alt = | released = 2020 | recorded = 2020 | venue = | studio = | genre = Ambient, New Age | length = 34:33 | label = Ghost Home Records | producer = Seamus O'Muineachain | prev_title = City of Lakes | prev_year = 2019 | next_title = Different Time Zones | next_year = 2022 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = Rockerilla | rev1Score = Positive <ref>P.81 {{cite web|author=Raffaello Russo |url=https://issuu.com/rockerilla/docs/476 |title=Seamus O Muineachain | Music Review | Album |publisher=Rockerilla |date= April 2020 |accessdate=10 July 2021}}</ref> | noprose = yes
}} '''''Blue Moon Set''''' is the fourth solo album by Irish ambient musician Seamus Ó Muíneacháin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://acloserlisten.com/2020/03/17/spring-music-preview-2020-modern-composition/|title=Spring Music Preview 2020 - Modern Composition |publisher= acloserlisten.com |date= |accessdate=2020-03-17}}</ref> The album was broadcast on several major radio stations, including BBC Radio 6,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hmlf |title= Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone|publisher= BBC |date=26 April 2020 |accessdate=10 July 2021}}</ref> RTÉ,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/an-taobh-tuathail/programmes/2020/0323/1124583-an-taobh-tuathail-monday-23-march-2020/?clipid=103362969|title= An Taobh Tuathail|publisher= RTÉ |date=23 May 2020 |accessdate=10 July 2021}}</ref> KEXP,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kexplorer.com/artist/220394|title= Seamus O'Muineachain|publisher= KEXPlorer |date=15 March 2020 |accessdate=7 July 2021}}</ref> and WFMU,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/101604|title= Shrunken Planet|publisher= wfmu.org |date=27 February 2021 |accessdate=7 July 2021}}</ref> and received a positive critical reception.
==Background and release==
The album was recorded in O'Muineachain's hometown of Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland, from January to March 2020,<ref>Pimmon {{cite web|url=https://www.pimpod.com/2020/04/08/quiet-space-129-blue-moon-set/ |title= QUIET SPACE — #129 — BLUE MOON SET|publisher= pimpod.com |date=8 April 2020 |accessdate=10 July 2021}}</ref> and was subsequently released during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland. The album had its premier on KDHX on 17 March 2020,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spinitron.com/KDHX/pl/10480506/Synthetic-Sounds|title= Syntehtic Sounds|publisher= KDHX |date=17 March 2020 |accessdate=10 July 2021}}</ref> and was released three days later, both digitally and as a limited edition blue cassette tape, on March 20.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://seamusomuineachain.bandcamp.com/album/blue-moon-set|title= Blue Moon Set on Bandcamp|publisher= Bandcamp |date=20 March 2020 |accessdate=10 July 2021}}</ref> Several music videos were created for the album, including a video for 'Slow Closing Day' by Irish experimental film-maker Maximilian Le Cain.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km7CYGJrTKI|title= Slow Closing Day on Youtube|publisher= Youtube |date=9 April 2020|accessdate=10 July 2021}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "Crestfalling" – 3:34 # "In The Burrows" – 2:41 # "The Space Where You Once Were" – 3:33 # "Windows/Chloe" – 5:53 # "Slow Closing Day" – 4:07 # "Try" – 3:34 # "Brambles" – 3:19 # "Still" – 3:34 # "Rushlight The Factories" – 4:18
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