Lunarin's New Album Set For January Release

Lunarin has announced that its new album, "The Midas Sessions", consisting of a collection of B-sides as well as acoustic renditions of earlier songs, will be released in January 2012.

The trio's original plan of releasing a short EP of B-sides, following their second full length album, Duae (released in August 2010), has snowballed into a full length album.

This change in Lunarin’s plan came about after the band embarked on a series of acoustic shows to promote "Duae". In the midst of their preparations, the band invited Natalie Soh (violins) from Serenaide and Linda’s younger brother, Victor (cello), to play with them. The group not only worked on the B-sides, they also took the opportunity to re-work the earlier songs released on "Duae" as well as on the band’s first album, "The Chrysalis", in order to play these songs acoustically as part of their set. The groups spent long hours in Linda’s apartment, located at The Midas, rehearsing and fine tuning these songs.

The end result of those hours of hard work quickly became a labour of love. “The strings brought an added dimension to the songs that I did not envisage,” bassplayer Linda Ong explains, “It dawned on us that it would be a waste not to record down all these ideas and release them after we were done with the acoustic performances.”

The band started recording in April 2011. In deciding that they would record all the songs that make up the acoustic sets, and not just the B-sides, the band abandoned their original plan of releasing a short EP and decided to release a full length album instead.

"The Midas Sessions" is the result of this decision to document the times spent at The Midas.

The album will be launched at The Pigeonhole on 15 January, 8pm and released digitally with only limited edition hard copies for sale.

Track listing
1. Ghost
2. Right of Sleep
3. Zero Point Red (acoustic)
4. 22
5. Midas (acoustic)
6. The Chrysalis (acoustic)
7. Coralline (acoustic)
8. Wednesday
9. Serpentine* (acoustic/ recorded live during rehearsals)
10. Isobel*
* Bonus tracks available only on limited edition hard copy version