EAT THE POOR: QUASI MOON’s LAMENT FOR THE END TIMES WITH A SYNTH-TINGED TWIST

Last April, during a studio choir session for Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward, Claire McKeown, Claire Boutelle Pius, and Danielle Mandel—former members of the baroque pop choir Honey Child—were reminded of the magic they felt when singing and creating music together. That spark reignited something deep, and when they reunited after the session, they knew this delicious creative energy couldn’t be ignored.

“I’ve always been obsessed with that gorgeous moment in music history when country, folk, and early rock ’n’ roll intertwined,” says Claire McKeown. “I wanted to write from that place—where Skeeter Davis’s The End of the World, Dave Berry’s The Crying Game, and Roy Orbison’s Running Scared intersect, with just a whisper of The Platters’ doo-wop on Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. And since I’ve fallen deeply in love with synths, those sounds have crept into our palette too.”

Their debut single, “Eat the Poor,” emerges into our uncertain world like a clear-eyed protest wrapped in beauty. It’s the kind of song you hope—if you love humanity—that one day won’t need to be sung. A plea and a warning, it reminds us that something is deeply off. That a scarcity mindset, left unchecked, robs us all of something sacred.