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““I sometimes think that boredom is when your brain gets the most creative,” says Moales, 27.”
“She chose the name Star Moles for her early Bandcamp releases because she liked the way it evoked some of nature’s oddest-looking fuzzballs , and it stuck.”
“It might not sound like much of a moment, but in Moales’ hands, it became a song called “Real Magic,” in which she invests that tiny incident with a strange, ominous energy.”
“It might be magic By Simon Vozick-Levinson Simon Vozick-Levinson Contact Simon Vozick-Levinson on X No One Writes About Everyday Life Quite Like Star Moles She’s Just Being Miley: Seven Takeaways From ‘Bass Persuades’ Geese Never Thought They’d End Up Here View all posts by Simon Vozick-Levinson Photographs by PHOBYMO October 7, 2026 Add us as a Google Preferred Source T he story goes something like this: Emily Moales was at a post office in Philadelphia , waiting to buy some stamps for a letter she had to mail.”
““They started coming to our house to record in the studio, and we eventually all started playing in each other’s bands,” she says.”
“Early last year, Moales sat down at the upright piano to write the songs that became Highway to Hell .”
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““I’ve always been pretty bookish,” she says over lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant in South Philly a few weeks before announcing the label signing.”
““I always thought my full name didn’t have much of a ring to it for showbiz.”
““We became huge Beatles fans together, and the Velvet Underground,” Moales recalls.”
“Together they made a Star Moles album called Camelot , which is nominally about Arthurian legend but whose highly hummable pop sound has more to do with Stevie Nicks.”
“, and 2025’s Snack Monster , she found herself more interested this time in bringing it all back home.”
“With its sneakily witty turns of phrase and its daring melodic leaps, “Real Magic” is a stellar example of the qualities that have made Star Moles , as she calls herself on record, a must-follow indie phenom to those in the know.”
““The four-star postmaster general/And neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can save you now….”
“He knows where you live… ” It gets even weirder from there.”
““It’s definitely been, to use a cliché, a whirlwind,” Moales says — funny, since she’s one of the least cliché-prone writers in music right now.”
“Originally released earlier this year through Historic New Jersey , the DIY label/studio/artistic collective she’s part of, Highway to Hell has drawn remarkable word-of-mouth buzz.”
““I basically moved into my parents’ basement and would just stay up all night recording on my laptop,” she says.”
“In the spring of 2020, she and Basko moved fulltime to Philly, where they write and record with a cast of characters that also includes sibling pop duo Sam and Louise Sullivan .”
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““I wanted that shiny, shivery, magical energy,” she says.”
“She imagines herself feuding with Benjamin Franklin, the long-dead founder of this nation’s mail system, and the repercussions that might follow: “You just messed with the postmaster general,” she sings over slowly rolling piano notes.”