Mighty Jupiter & The Mooncake Band – “Forced Fun For The Just OK Life”

Mighty Jupiter & The Mooncake Band’s “Forced Fun For The Just OK Life” needs your attention, and I’m sure you will love it. The record is scrappy in a deliberate way, more like a stitched-together mood board than a glossy statement piece, and all the better for it.

Built over two years and soaked in a mix of dry humor and emotional vertigo, the album feels like a personal project that somehow made its way out into the world intact. It leans into genre chaos, psych, baroque pop, shoegaze, indietronica, without losing its footing.

Standouts like “Catch Me Now”, “The Eeriest Summer”, “Thermal Waters”, and “Super Me” give the album its backbone, but the one I keep coming back to is “Stardust And Rust”. The dual vocal delivery from the talented artists gives the songs a kind of fractured charm that sticks with you, even when it’s off-key.

You’ll want to be there when the next curveball hits. Keep up with Mighty Jupiter & The Mooncake Band on social media and streaming platforms to catch what’s coming next in the rest of 2025.