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Lunarin's sophomore outing Duae continues their fascination with gloomy art-rock while digging deeper into their musical roots of grunge and classical music. Incorporating sample and synthesizers into their sound, they retain their heaviness while sculpting a densely-layered soundscape.
This album is a diary of events, thoughts, ideas and varying forms of psychoses that took place since their debut album The Chrysalis in 2006. As with all of their efforts, Duae is a concept album. Through a trilogy of songs like 'Midas', 'Red' and the Alice-In-Chains-esque 'Serpentine', the rock trio creates a movement in 3 levels and gain an epiphany in the final one. Lead single 'Zero Point Red' was specifically written for local filmmaker Jason Lai's Brother No. 2, a documentary about the Khmer Rouge, touching on themes on reconciliation and resignation.
Describing the album as "a diary, a journal, a journey", it has certainly been so for Lunarin. Duae charts their growth as musicians given that they step into the realm of home recording and building their own studio. The album is produced by the band at their home studio and mastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering, USA. Duae will be released on Friday 20 August 2010.
The track listing is as follows:
1. For Apollo
2. Midas
3. Zero Point Red
4. Saturn
5. Red
6. Coralline
7. Icarus Rising
8. Serpentine
9. To Forget
10. The Sky (Algiers)
11. Solus Nebula
12. The Inquisition
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Lunarin
Playing together for more than 15 years, Lunarin has been intuitively balancing melodic female vocals with hard-hitting riffs and drumbeats, while at the same time, to indulge themselves in a myriad of styles reminiscent of art-rock and metal.
Initially inspired by 90's grunge bands, the heavy rock trio has since expanded their musical horizons to create a soundscape reminiscent of the progressive art-rock / heavy metal stylings of Tool, A Perfect Circle and Mastodon coupled with the lyrical sensitivities of PJ Harvey and Tori Amos.
Described by music journalist Sujin Thomas as "Tori Amos on acid", the band's brand of dark and heavy music has been described as "Tool meets Kate Bush"; "Tori Amos fronts A Perfect Circle" and has been likened to the dark soundscapes of 4AD bands by music critics and radio deejays.
If Lunarin had to choose to deliver a message with the music, it would be that contrasting elements can and do work.
Lunarin are:
Ho Kah Wye – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
Linda Joelle Ong – vocals, electric and acoustic bass
Loo Eng Teck – drums, piano, vocals
Website: www.lunarin.com
Facebook: facebook.com/lunarin
Twitter: twitter.com/lunarin
