“We were thinking about releasing Silver Dream quarter one or quarter two of this year, and then COVID happened,” Moon Taxi bassist Tommy Putnam says at the tail end of 2020, a few weeks before the LP’s eventual January 2021 release. Moon Taxi were gearing up for a whirlwind year promoting their latest LP, Silver Dream, when the world came to a sudden, unexpected halt. Almost 20 years after Trevor Terndrup and Tommy Putnam rolled into the inaugural Bonnaroo as wide-eyed fans, Moon Taxi are ready to inject that festival’s kaleidoscopic spirit into a socially distanced world.
