Singled Out: Nick Moon's Setting Sun

By Editorial Staff | Published: Mar 19, 2026 1:42 PM EDT

LA-based post-punk artist Nick Moon just released his satirical surf-rock track "Setting Sun" about the growing class divide in the U.S., and to celebrate we asked him to tell us about the song. Here is the story:

I wrote the "Setting Sun" instrumental along with the chorus during COVID, which was high school for me. But it stayed shelved because I just couldn't get the verses right. I wrote dozens of other songs, and it wasn't until years later that I just knocked the verses out in an afternoon. I did it by throwing lyrics together from scrapped songs and stray lines I had lying around, along with some new ones.

Lyrically, it's one of my most straightforward songs. The verses are all different stories about class divides in America, or class divides anywhere, I guess. The opening line, "One bed to sleep in and one bed to f***" came from the experience of dating a girl who did, in fact, have two queen-size beds next to each other in one of the rooms of her house. Like it was a hotel.

I thought it would be boring if the second verse was the same as the first, so I turned the second half of it into a jam section with a key change and four guitars going at once. It's a really fun song to play live. During the first verse, I sing to a plastic skull, and during the guitar solo, I run back and forth across the stage.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen and watch for yourself below and learn more here