Cali/Danish Dream Pop Duo Moon Panda Release “Penny” Single From Upcoming LP ‘Dumb Luck’
CALIFORNIA/DANISH DREAM POP QUARTET MOON PANDA
RELEASE NEW SINGLE “PENNY”
FROM UPCOMING LP DUMB LUCK OUT SEPTEMBER 26
U.S. TOUR DATES SPAN THE NORTHEAST, WEST COAST
& TEXAS
Photo Credit: Ricky Banto
New York, NY (September 15, 2025) – With dream pop purveyors Moon Panda‘s third album Dumb Luck now on the horizon – out September 26 via Moon Panda/Virgin Music Group – the California/Danish four-piece have released a fourth single from the record, “Penny” today. A defiant number, with a personality all her own. Moon Panda will take Dumb Luck out on the road this autumn, hitting the Northeast, West Coast and Texas [all dates below]. Watch + share the video and pre-order Dumb Luck on all formats here.
Discussing “Penny,” and her many personality quirks, vocalist Maddy Myers notes, “This one has had so many lives! It started kind of Beatles-y and then went real heavy like Pixies meets Tame Impala, which was so fun to play, but ultimately we chilled it out. I don’t know who Penny is but damn, she’s trouble.”
Recorded largely in Myers’ and guitarist Gustav Moltke’s home studio, with bassist/keyboardist George Godwin producing, and Josh Cabitac behind the kit, the band handed off the nearly finished material to producer Adam Thein (Djo), with whom they worked previously on 2023’s Sing Spaceship, Sing!. The final product is their most sensuous work to date, with hints of The Cardigans or even The Carpenters – somewhat blissed out while also tackling life’s emotional challenges.
“‘Dumb Luck’ is probably the most collaborative album we’ve made as a band. It has little pieces of all of us within it and feels really special,” adds Myers. “Like this little mix of all our different characteristics – it’s got my softness and introspection, Gustav’s humour and explosiveness, Josh’s thoughtful precision, and George’s wonky wizardry just kind of blankets over everything. I hope people can feel the care and love that went into these songs that mean so much to us as a collective.”
Since 2023, Myers and Moltke left Copenhagen for Maddy’s Southern California and started a family – two events that understandably had a profound impact on Dumb Luck. “Holy moly, becoming a mom is the best thing to ever happen to me but damn, those first months postpartum were so hard,” notes Myers. “The hormonal rollercoaster let me experience the heartache and devastation of someone going through times much worse than I’ve experienced – and that darkness shows in some of the lyrics. It was like losing yourself, your creative identity, and then finding it again in a completely new way. And it’s kind of sad…because you realize you’ll never be the same person that you were again. But then that’s okay because you’re growing and changing and opening up space to be more.”
Dumb Luck is Moon Panda’s “band album”, written and recorded with Godwin and Cabitac. The title, Dumb Luck, is a partial nod to this, a reference to the pure good fortune of being able to create art with three other individuals who came together living in different parts of the globe, but somehow making it work, and coming together closer than ever before.
“There are many moments in ‘Dumb Luck’ where I let my mind take me to the possibility of losing everything that I’d built,” concludes Myers. “Losing my relationship, my creativity…and allowed myself to beg and fight for it to go back to the way it was. Cause again, that’s the thing about having a baby. You enter this new chapter and you mourn your old one for a moment. But at the same exact time you look so much forward to this new life you’ve created.”
And with Dumb Luck, Moon Panda have created their finest work yet.
Tour Dates [Tickets]:
10/16 – Boston, MA @ Middle East
10/17 – Brooklyn, NY @ The Sultan Room
10/18 – Philadelphia, PA @ Silk City Diner
11/02 – Portland, OR @ Lollipop Shoppe
11/03 – Seattle, WA @ Babayaga
11/06 – San Francisco, CA @ The Faight Collective
11/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Gold-Diggers
11/08 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
11/20 – Austin, TX @ The 13th Floor
11/22 – Houston, TX @ Dan Electros
11/23 – Dallas, TX @ Three Links
Dumb Luck tracklist:
01. Lost World
02. Penny
03. Fantasy
04. Butterknife
05. Avalanche
06. Space Elevator
07. Superstore
08. Automatic
09. The Light
10. Loveflow