Moth Fight is an American experimental

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outfit based in

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. Their sound is a blend of orchestral instrumentation (trumpets, cellos, violins, banjos, barbershop harmony), tape loops, samples, synthesizers, and circuit bent toys.

Discography

US singles

* ''

Hopscotch Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. It is a ch ...

'' (2007) Natrix Natrix Records

Compilations

* "Rev. Sharp's Invention (Live)" featured on ''Technicolor Yawn: KVRX Local Live Vol. 12'' (2008)

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* "A Long Way from Home" featured on ''HABITAT'' (2008)

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Trivia

* The song "Hopscotch" is apparently inspired by

Julio Cortázar Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ent ...

's novel ''

'' and includes lyrics written in Gliglish, the constructed language La Maga teaches Horacio. * "Hopscotch, pt. 2" references both

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...

's Jabberwocky and the

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' White and Black Bride

References

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