Flat Moon's 'Cookin' Up a Groove' is a technicolor funk-punk blast you have to hear

Flat Moon have burst through the door, flipped the table, and started a full-blown dance riot with their debut album 'Cookin’ Up a Groove'. This record is an adrenaline shot of pure creativity, a kaleidoscopic collision of styles that feels like a festival happening inside your very skull. It’s chaotic, charismatic, completely unhinged, and it’s glorious.

From the first seconds of its standout 'A Moon's Bouche', you can feel why this six-piece have earned a cult following for their live shows. Sax lines zip around like laser beams, guitars sprint between funk swagger and punk snarl, and the rhythm section plays with such infectious confidence you half expect your speakers to start sweating. Every track feels like a dare: How wild can this get? How much fun can we have? How weird can we make it while still keeping you hooked?

Spoiler: very, very weird… and completely irresistible.

'Cookin’ Up a Groove' earns its culinary metaphor with pride. Each song is a new flavour, a mad-scientist blend of everything Flat Moon love — Afrobeat pulses melting into psychedelic haze, jazz flickers bursting out of hip-hop cadences, and Latin flourishes sliding beneath riffs big enough to shake teeth loose. It sounds like it should collapse under its own ambition, but instead it becomes this technicolour organism held together by instinct, playfulness, and sheer musical chemistry.

What pushes the album over the edge is its emotional range. Beneath the theatrics and the wild genre fusion is writing that taps into the human messiness of overstimulation, sleepless nights, anxious spirals, unexpected joy, self-realisation, and the tiny victories that feel way bigger than they should. Flat Moon can pivot from hilariously unhinged to unexpectedly poignant in the span of a verse, and somehow, it all makes sense.

This is a statement that Flat Moon are here to challenge the norms, celebrate the noise, and make music that feels alive in every fibre. 'Cookin’ Up a Groove' is an invitation to join the party, embrace the chaos, and lose yourself in a world where genres melt, colours bleed, and the only rule is move.

If Flat Moon keep making records this bold, this fun, and this relentlessly inventive, the UK scene will have a whole new phenomenon to watch closely.