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For The Capsules, nighttime is when ideas begin to take shape. On “Full Moon Factory,” that creative energy becomes a song about the connection between people sharing a moment under the same sky.
The trio—Julie Shields, Jason Shields and drummer Kevin Trevino—builds the track around a steady rhythmic pulse, spacious guitars and floating vocals. Rather than relying on dense layers, the band leaves room for individual parts to emerge, giving the song’s exploration of shared energy space to breathe.
Its accompanying video brings that atmosphere into an animated world. Hand-drawn and animated by Miranda Parkin, who directed it with The Capsules, the visual casts the band members in a classic horror-inspired adventure. It also extends the group’s longstanding interest in connecting music with visual art.
In the conversation below, The Capsules discuss the song’s origins, their collaboration with Parkin and how loss has influenced the material taking shape for their next album.
Watch the official “Full Moon Factory” music video.
Finding Energy After Dark
What inspired your new single, “Full Moon Factory”?
We are definitely night owls, so we get a lot of our energy at night. It’s the time we’re usually working on music. So that was the starting point for the lyrics, and then that kind of expanded into the idea of being with other people outside under a full moon and the shared energy and connection of that moment. Like being at an outdoor concert at night under the stars where there’s a shared experience that’s electric, that’s hard to forget. It’s a kind of magic.
The song has a dreamy, hypnotic sound. How did you create that atmosphere?
We often use a lot of layered guitars and other layered tracks to help create a dreamy sound. But on Full Moon Factory, we actually stripped things back a little bit in order to leave a little more room for the guitars and vocals to alternate being the primary focus without being too buried under other instruments. And the drums have this steady pulse to them that sits underneath it all.
The lyrics explore the connection between people. What does that message mean to you?
We’re all electric and full of energy that feels amplified when you’re together with other people. Like we’re all plugged into the same current. Separate, but still living this wild experience together. The full moon seems to magnify that wild energy that we can feed off of.
Building the Song Around a Pulse
How did you work together as a band to bring the song to life?
The song started with a keyboard part that Julie wrote, which ended up being layered with her guitar as well. The bass line and vocals quickly followed and while recording those tracks, Jason was hearing a rhythmic pulsing beat throughout and did a scratch track of what he was hearing and Kevin was able to bring that to life. In the studio, he used a technique of muting the drums with a piece of fabric to get a unique sound for the drum parts.
Bringing a Moonlit World to Life
The music video has a spooky, animated style. Where did the idea come from?
We had seen some of Miranda Parkin’s work before and really liked it. A lot of what we’d seen had this cool, spooky style with really interesting and imaginative characters. And then we saw that she had made a music video for Grey De Lisle (who also happens to be a voice actor like Julie and Miranda), so we reached out to see if she would be interested in working together on a video for one of our new songs. We thought Full Moon Factory would be perfect since we had already been brainstorming some spooky ideas for the story of the video. The song with her style ended up working out really well together.
What was it like working with Miranda Parkin on the video?
It was a lot of fun seeing the story we had written for it evolve into this visual tale. We knew she’d do a great job with it! She’s a phenomenal artist and we all worked together well.
How important are visuals and animation to The Capsules’ music?
In the past, we’ve always done our own music videos, especially Jason. Jason actually made an animated video for “Super Symmetry” off the last album. So although we usually film our music videos, animation is something that we have a great love for. One of the reasons to recruit outside help from Miranda for the Full Moon Factory video was to free up some time to make additional music videos for this album. We released a video for “Machines” a while back, and we have more in progress already that we’ve filmed as we lead up to our next album release, early next year.
A Darker Direction Shaped by Loss
This song has a darker sound than some of your earlier work. Was that intentional?
Not exactly intentional, but is something we leaned into a bit as the song was coming together. This album is probably leaning darker overall, but we’ve always had songs that were a little darker and moodier in the past. Songs like “Our Apocalypse” or “Hollywood” or “The Lonely End” come to mind. But since the last album came out, each of us has experienced the loss of people who are very important to us in our lives, and perhaps that is coming out in these songs in different ways.
When do you think listeners will enjoy this song the most?
We have to admit that it was really fun listening to Full Moon Factory outside under the Full Moon on the night it was released. We’d recommend during the next full moon to go outside and listen to it. Or listen while driving on a full moon night.
New Vinyl and the Next Chapter
What’s next for The Capsules, and is there anything else you’d like to share with your fans?
We just had a brand new 12″ vinyl single come out on Graveface Records, which we’re really excited about. It’s glow-in-the-dark vinyl, plus it has an etched full moon design on one side of the vinyl. We’re really enjoying promoting Full Moon Factory, but things are moving quickly and we’re already preparing the next single, which should be out in November. Everything is leading up to our new album release early next year, which we are really excited to talk about soon. Thanks for listening!
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