The Datsuns release eighth album ‘Moonstruck Man’ with the stop-motion ‘Glide Like A Ghost’ video
The 11-track record was built across Swedish studios and lands on vinyl, CD and digital formats as the New Zealand band leans into fuzz, psychedelia and garage-rock momentum.
· Edited by Peter Luha
Credit: Jesse de Their-Hunt (via source)
The Datsuns have released their eighth studio album, Moonstruck Man, through Hellsquad Records. The 11-track set is available digitally, on CD, standard black vinyl and a limited white-vinyl edition. Produced by the band, it opens with a run of short, hard-driving songs before stretching into more psychedelic and mid-tempo material.
The record was assembled across several Swedish spaces, including Studio Gröndahl, Gold Halo, Kiki’s Castle and Riddarborgen. Frans Hägglund handled engineering and most of the mixes, with Magnus Lindberg mastering. The current lineup places Dolf de Borst on vocals and bass, Christian Livingstone and Phil Somervell on guitars, and Adam Lindmark on drums, with Robert and Tomas Eriksson contributing drums to selected tracks.
Release day also brought a video for “Glide Like A Ghost,” the third collaboration between the band and director Marc Swadel. Shot around bridges and backstreets in London, it uses an analogue, 16mm-inspired stop-motion approach to match the song’s ghostly imagery. Across the album, the band links fuzz-heavy guitar, garage-punk attack and psychedelic detours without sanding away the loose, high-energy character that has defined its records since the early 2000s.
Credit: The Datsuns / Hellsquad Records
Credit: The Datsuns
Why it matters
Moonstruck Man documents a veteran guitar band still treating the studio as a collaborative workshop, while the handmade release-day video gives the album a distinctive visual entry point.
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