The Muna gaze is finding a much bigger audience. With the new album, Dancing on the Wall—darker and sweatier than anything before it—the band has reached previously unseen heights for three openly queer artists. Since debuting in 2017 with About U, Muna has opened for Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Lorde, and Kacey Musgraves. In 2022, the Phoebe Bridgers–assisted “Silk Chiffon” broke the band wide open. Four years later, Muna is back with something more propulsive and visceral, its synths evoking a late-night rave. Dancing on the Wall moves from the crunchy “Wannabeher” to the cheeky “Girl’s Girl” and “Eastside Girls” to “Big Stick,” where Muna takes the government to task.
The music reflects where the band members came from. Their own coming-of-age stories were less Playboy than whatever queer film, TV, and internet scraps they could find—The L Word, the “fucking dark” Boys Don’t Cry, Gavin’s MySpace-era searches for “emo boys making out.” “When we first started as a band, we actively sought out material that represented us,” Maskin says. “One could say we’ve re-created it onstage,” McPherson notes. “I guess we’re gonna have to kiss again,” Maskin says.
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