✦ Start Here: What Is Moonlight Animals?
Moonlight Animals is a fictional band born in 1971 in Bayonne, New Jersey — five kids trying to make sense of the world through sound. Over two decades, they wrote strange, emotional albums. They toured basements and broke into the music scene all over the world. They loved each other in ways they could never quite say.
This project is a multimedia narrative: a scrapbook of lost tapes, prose vignettes, art, comics, and fragments of memory — trying to reconstruct a band’s history the way all fans do: out of order, out of love, out of grief.
Where do I begin?
→ Read the story chronologically
Start with 1971. The formation. The basement demos. A boy watching another boy through the glass. The silence before the sound.
Recommended for first-time readers.
→ Browse by medium
Art, comics, lore, timelines, fan theories. Skip around.
The story doesn’t mind. It’s built like memory — patchworked, not linear.
What kind of story is this?
- A love story (slow burn, complicated, queer, true)
- A band story (albums, tours, the things they never said)
- A survival story (how do you hold on when everything tells you to let go?)
“Moonlight Animals was the kind of band that saved people. But they couldn’t save themselves.”
Content & Themes
This project explores:
- ‣ Queer identity, repression, and romance
- ‣ Emotional trauma, family, recovery
- ‣ Music, memory, and found family
- ‣ Depression and survival
Please tread gently.