Biography

Moon Worm was born out of necessity. Jack Schaefer grew up on a farm in rural North Dakota, loving indie rock but having no one to share his passions with. The project is, in that way, clearly rooted in one man’s singular vision. Schaefer's newest tracks really demonstrate how much Moon Worm has come into its own. “These Games” and 2022’s “Dopamine” and “Meet Me There,” build from the foundations Moon Worm laid out on the 2021 LP Odyssey. Recorded in the attic of a North Dakota farmhouse, Odyssey is aptly titled, a journey through post-punk synth washes and bursts of dream pop lucidity; he wrote the record after getting exposed to the music of Tame Impala, Beach House, M83, and Mac Demarco during his college years, and those influences shine through on his debut LP, a space-age fantasy from a 2020s vantage point. If Odyssey was Schaefer standing on the shoulders of giants, these days he’s walking right alongside them. “Meet Me There,” released last November, is burnished with handclap percussion and twinkling synths, and “Dopamine” is an indie rock song filtered through zero-gravity space. “These Games,” is Moon Worm’s lightest, most summery track yet, carried by Schaefer’s pristine falsetto. These are songs that eclipse anything off Odyssey or Moon Worm’s earlier self-titled EP, songs that exist alongside their influences, not in their shadow.