I’d already earmarked the aptly named Stars Are the Light as a 2019 favorite a mere one-track deep into Moon Duo’s seventh and latest outing, which shimmers and sighs and glides through electro-psychedelia and krautrock and light disco funk, unfolding in bright, fluid, mellow stretches of grooving sound, luminous and resplendent like a night sky not polluted by city lights. The Portland outfit made up of guitarist Ripley Johnson (Wooden Shjips) and keyboardist Sanae Yamada churn out the sort of expansive, languidly undulating sci-fi sounds in which I want to fully immerse my consciousness. Warming the stage on their Seattle date is Seattle’s somesurprises, the lush and hazy shoegazey project helmed by singer-songwriter Natasha El-Sergany, who is celebrating her band’s self-titled debut on Drawing Room Records. by Leilani Polk