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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:

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Review: Lunarin's 2018 "Into The Ether"

I wrote this mostly as a visceral blow-by-blow account, as I Iistened to Lunarin's 2018 three-song album. Using earphones that came with an old phone (i.e. pretty cheapo), playing on my mobile phone.

First track: "Rage".

The sound -- their sound -- it is (still) good. And this is on cheapo earpieces. The mix and mastering is top notch: punchy drums, fat driven guitars, familiar vocals.

Same but different.

More mellow? Chill?

Wah, is that an F-word in track 1? (Reads the PDF 'sleeve'). Yes, I heard right. Even so, there's something non-threatening in the way it's used/ sung. Like hearing a statement made. There is no finger (at least how I see it).

Track 2 now: "Bruises".

For some reason, listening to Track 2 reminded me of the first time I heard Def Leppard. Not that they sound like Def Leppard. It's that feel upon hearing a melody that connects with you. It's personal.

Track 2 grows on me. Sounds like a ballad. It gets more and more melodic as the song progresses. Works very well as number 2 (would have been too slow a tempo as track 1; perfect as the middle track). Lunarin knows what they are doing.

Ok, track 3: "The Flood".

Drums. Guitars. Vocals. I am picturing an MTV in my mind. Goosebumps. It has become my favourite for the moment.

Track 3 sounds the closest to the Lunarin that gave SG and the world The Chrysalis. Maybe because it's darker (but not bleak).

And then it ends.

Three tracks.

Too short. Yet enough. In the way an author knows when to stop a story and leave you wanting more.

I'm playing the album again.

This is a much more mature and refined Lunarin. They are older but the sound isn't old.

Same yet different.

More confident, more melodic than I remember. Sounding strong without having to shout. A band who knows what they want, now.

They have become better storytellers.

I like.

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(lunarin)

Lunarin is a rock trio from Singapore. Linda Ong-voc/bass, Ho Kah Wye-gtr, Loo Eng Teck-drums  =D

This killer song is off of their full-length 2010 release, Duae. Now they have a new ep(?) coming in 2018, it’s being mastered atm.

  SoundCloud, Bandcamp  YouTube

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