Listen/purchase: Hold My Soul by Lunarin
When it come to ‘new releases’, it doesn’t get any newer than this! XD
The new ep from Singapore trio Lunarin just dropped a few minutes ago, and it sounds great! =D
Linda Ong-voc/bass, Ho Kah Wye-gtr, Loo Eng Teck-drums.
The Official site has lots of good info about the band and how this ep came about, here’s a little taste: “2020 was supposed to be a slow year for the band. Since releasing ‘Into the Ether’ in 2018, the band has turned their focus to their personal lives and family. Formed in 2003, Lunarin has enjoyed playing progressive rock as part of the Singapore music scene in the early 2000s, but by 2019, its members were prepared to call it a day. But along came 2020 with the global coronavirus pandemic. Singapore went into lockdown in April 2020. Why then did they begin again now? The band shared: when told we had to be separate, that we had to be alone to be safe, that was when the songs started coming. There was a sudden cognizance of connections interrupted. So it seems these songs were their quiet response to the collective forced isolation and the frenetic energy of households on lockdown.”
Links: SoundCloud, Bandcamp YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Official
The new tunes take the band in a more pop-tronic direction let’s go back to 2006 for the title track of The Chrysalis: