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Daniel Caesar ‘Moon’ Review: Bon Iver’s quiet gravity meets a late-night vow

By Marcus AdetolaSeptember 24, 2025
Daniel Caesar ‘Moon’ Review: Bon Iver’s quiet gravity meets a late-night vow

“Moon” arrives a month before Son Of Spergy and cools the rollout into focus. The single dropped on September 23, 2025. The album follows on October 24 via Republic, after the scene-setting pair “Have A Baby (With Me)“ and “Call On Me.“

The writing is unguarded. Caesar admits where he is and where he wants to go: “I’m not who I wanna be at the moment, maybe soon.”

Later he draws the line between the house he came from and the life he intends to build: “Someday I will leave your home, be a man, I’ll make my own.” 

Those couplets echo how he has framed the album’s core, a project about faith and the figure at its centre.

“It’s about religion, but more importantly, it’s about my father… in your childhood, your father is a lot like God,” he said this summer.

The arrangement stays low-lit. Keys and guitar carry a soft pulse, with spacious reverb and close harmonies tinting the edges.

Bon Iver’s role feels like fine-grain texture more than a traded verse. That choice is already prompting chatter.

A fresh r/boniver thread praises the song while wishing Justin Vernon were louder in the mix.

Others argue the light touch fits the mood and points to the album’s closer “Sins Of The Father,” where Bon Iver appears again, as the likely place for a bigger hand.

As a creative call, the restraint suits a track about stepping out from a powerful pull without denying where you learned it.

As a single, “Moon” reads like the quiet keeper that holds the album together. “Call On Me” sketched the open-road view.

This one leans into voice and intent, trusting the room to carry the feeling. It keeps the family-and-faith thread alive without sermonising, and it does it with small, durable lines that invite replay.

Verdict: a soft-spoken promise to change course, shaded by Bon Iver in the margins. If you wanted a headline duet, you may feel shortchanged. If you’re here for atmosphere and a lyric that leaves a serene, warm afterglow, “Moon” lands exactly where it aims.

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