My Review: Lunar Twin - Aurora

Lunar Twin - Aurora

Summarising time and changing places in music: do you think this is a simple thing? Not at all.

Yet this is what happens when listening to Aurora, which highlights the enormous step forward compared to Ghost Moon Ritual, which already featured moments of intense beauty. But is it really so, Bryce Boudreau and Chris Murphy in this new work reach the centre of gravity of a sensibility that reveals sweetness and the ability to connect sensuality perfectly. The scenery, the scaffolding and the consequential suggestions are all within a harmonic bending towards the immensity of the refraction of light, showing how their songs are sonic jewels under the palms of a sunset that finds itself inebriated by this attention to detail and simply perfect production. They do not capture, but liberate the motions of the human soul by dressing it in atmospheres that walk with a cigarette in their mouths, crossing the night to smile at the arrival of the new day.

Sparkling, mysterious, dense, deliberately generous, this creature lives on in ten episodes in which everything is a seeing rather than a hearing, the notes sink into the drops of amazement and you are dancing between bright films in search of an embrace. Electronics becomes the outpost of the Chillwave, in an artistic marriage that re-establishes the need to listen to records from the Nineties: the two perform a cultural service, where history returns to its importance and in which they allow the present to have new solutions, not only to differentiate itself, but to develop a cognitive path that is more necessary than ever.

They advance, disruptive, the sensations of dark plots that do not need to be negative, like walking nocturnal souls waiting to be illuminated. Listening to Aurora one finds oneself moist, with tears flowing as satisfaction and not as suffering, and dry at the same time because the two boys seem to have found a way to absorb the tensions of living. The synths are the real protagonists of every single track, as they become the surgeons of beauty, dancers in primis of their harmonic hatching, investigators of possibilities, painters of mood pictures, with the ability to donate, along the twenty-nine minutes, a sense of peace and positivity that makes it all simply useful and perfect. 

An album certainly useful for learning the sinuosity of feelings, for identifying the depth of research and for enjoying nocturnal breaths in search of a smile: generously pregnant with poetry...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Supino

27th April 2023

https://lunartwin.bandcamp.com/album/aurora