Spider on the Moon

SPIDER ON THE MOON by The Abramson Singers
RELEASE DATE: 12am EST, NOVEMBER 4, 2025

A collaboration between friends, the video was entirely improvised in one day using only materials, props and costumes at hand—including a surprising accumulation of glum, inanimate dogs. The settings blend fact and fiction, showcasing disorderly piles that need attention in a family home that has passed through generations. While the camera focuses on encroaching blackberry brambles, outmoded objects, and offbeat collectibles, a story of letting go emerges.

Video directed by Lucien Durey, Leah Abramson & Stephen Quissy, and edited by Lucien Durey.

MUSIC

Music & Lyrics by Leah Abramson (SOCAN/ASCAP/MAPL)
Produced by Leah Abramson & Jason Starnes

Vocals: Leah Abramson
Guitar, synths: Jason Starnes
Keyboard, synths: Tyson Naylor
Bass: Mark Beaty
Drums: Dan Gaucher

Spider on the Moon was originally written as part of a performance art project called “Fern & Kelby” with artist/video director Lucien Durey. In the song, Leah Abramson writes from the point of view of an aging hippie named Fern Suncloud, who perpetually lives in 1973 (the year a spider was sent into space for the first time), and is critical of her old hippie friend who has turned into a capitalist business man and runs on this pointless thing called a treadmill (invented a few years earlier in 1966).