Seductive indie pop smoulders into a slow-burn retro soundtrack that sets the scene of a sun-bleached desert highway in Betty Moon’s single, A Taxi Ride, from her seminal EP, Strangely Beautiful. The Los Angeles-based alt-pop-rock artist, songwriter and producer built the track around reflection, loss, desire and the self-possession required to move into a new chapter without surrendering your fire.
With a garage-rock edge meeting cinematic hooks and neo-noir pop demure energy, Betty Moon joins Wolf Alice, Deap Vally and Warpaint in their ability to play with 60s pop sensibilities, retro-cool aesthetics and Western swagger to alchemise an earworm that could have been ripped straight from Pulp Fiction. City lights, rearview reflections and late-night emotional movement glow through the arrangement with enough illumination to leave you dazed.
Carrying the hypnotic sensuality of Lydia Lunch into contemporary pop’s darkest corridors through her harmonies, while evoking Garbage nostalgia, Betty Moon is one of the most stylised icons of pop in 2026.
Moon’s past with A&M Records and her decision to remain independent through Evolver Music makes her aura in A Taxi Ride feel even bolder; she’s a siren hellbent on ensnaring on her own terms, and it shows. She has already placed music across television and film, including Californication, Dexter and The Walking Dead, but clearly, she’s not just destined to soundtrack someone else’s vision.
A Taxi Ride is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
