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Falling Star

by LUNAR PATHS

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We are eternally grateful to the darkwave/post-punk communities for recognising and embracing us as one of their own, not least because, when we formed Lunar Paths in late 2021, we had no idea as to what musical genre we belonged! We simply threw stuff at the proverbial wall, in order to see what would stick.
Our roots, as veterans of the original northern UK goth scene, undoubtedly played a part in determining our sound, but then so did the many seismic changes in the musical landscape that took place over the last four decades.
We hear a lot of these influences in the new music of our peers, some of which sounds like it could easily have been made in the early 1980s, but, when it comes to pinning down and describing our own sound, it seems like an impossible task.
Take, for example, this, our latest song, a downright peculiar blend of spoken word psychedelia shot through with sirens, darkwave drums and buzzing, post-punk guitars. We have not made anything like this to date. Indeed, each track that we make seems different from its predecessors – and yet we do undeniably have a sound that is all our own, and recognisably ‘us’.
So, how did Falling Star come to be?
First of all, Kevin came up with an urgent, driving rhythm, soaked in subs. Diane found two blistering guitar samples, and proceeded to warp, stretch, transpose, slice up and stitch it all back together again. Kevin came up with a piano riff, and Diane created something that sounded a bit like a sitar. Then we added a bit of bodhrán, radio interference and tornado siren…. as you do.
There was something about this tense mix of sounds that called to mind all those tragic, troubled people, real and fictional, who weigh so heavily on the hearts and minds of their friends because they are so clearly in some sort of distress, and who may or may not be a danger to themselves. The lyrics are rendered in spoken word, and in a cheery bubble-gum psychedelia that goes directly against the grain of this dark subject matter.

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Falling Star:
We’re sitting on our hands again.
We’re climbing up the walls.
They’re breaking down the door again and running down the halls.
And every time somebody says
She does it for attention,
The others say it’s just her way of cutting through the tension.
They had to take her in again.
We followed in the car.
A dozen faded daffodils wilting in a jar.
A thousand times we’ve said it: something isn’t right.
Now we’re sitting in the embers of another Friday night.
I don’t know what I can do. There’s nothing I can say.
I never knew what was really true. I still don't to this day.
Sometimes she’s in yellow, sometimes she’s in black.
This time she really means it and she’s never coming back.
We’re sweeping up the broken glass, we’re praying for a cure.
We wonder if she’s faking but we’ll never know for sure.
Always a joy to see you. Always I wonder what you are.
Making a wish upon your falling star.
Wolleynisehssemitemossometimesshesinblack
Kcabgnimocrevensehsdnatisnaemyllaerehsemitsiht
Revenrevenreven.

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released April 23, 2023
Written, performed and produced by LUNAR PATHS.
LUNAR PATHS are Diane Dubois and Kevin Hunter.
Cover image by Linda Martin @linjamart21

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Lunar Paths Chicago, Illinois

Veterans of the original UK northern goth scene, Lunar Paths are a transatlantic musical duo. With memorable hooks woven through intricate, powerful percussion, laced together with haunting vocals, their eclectic sound shares traits with goth & alternative indie artistes. Their music transcribes what they love, documents where they have been, and hints at where they are going. ... more

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