Why Kevin Moore is a Genius

I admire how his music touches me emotionally, his music is so infused by emotion. I also admire how he went on from Dream theater in 1994 because he was starting to feel like he wasn’t passionate anymore about the band and also that he had a vision for his own music, I admire that sort of individualism in people. People who aren’t afraid of carving out their own path, despite what other people might think. 

His genius was in creating unique atmospheric music that used spoken word samples, in f,ex there’s nothing that sounds like the song “White Robe”.  His music is very atmospheric, sometimes ambient, introspective and sometimes moody. 

What he did to maintain his creativity is try out weird and experimental thing in his music, f.ex in the song “Please Hang Up”, he recorded a Neil Young album, and cut out all the music, so that it would only hear pops and noises, which added greatly to the ambiance of the music. Another example is using a German bingo show and using a person counting some numbers as the intro to the song “Even The Waves”. Otherwise, he used a NASA taping of some astronauts visiting space and a narrator documenting their experiences on the songs “Astronaut Down” and "Lunar". And one of the most interesting things he did was use a public domain film called Age 13 as a basis for a whole album. He used various sound clips of people talking in the album, what he also did was use the album as an inspiration for all the music and lyrics, and even the artwork which is a still frame from the film. Using prayers in “Andrew Was Drowning His Stepfather” is another example of his creative genius. Animal sounds and rain are also used throughout the album.

Some of the influences include: Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, Roger Waters, Jane Siberry, Laurie Anderson, Lisa Germano, Pole, The Cure, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Way Out, Gordons and Acid Undertones.

These days, Kevin Moore is a liscened psychatrist working in Minot, North Dakota. He has a patreon where he has been releasing demos for the past 8 years, however it's gone inactive in the past few years, hoping that a new album is still in the works!