Stay Lunar has always had something of the ’80s pulsing at the heart of their music. But as we all know, that decade was a diverse and eclectic time, and if change, evolution, and exploration were the names of the game, the same can be said for this Bristol, UK five-piece..
It’s been a while since I wrote about them, but I recall singles such as “Dreaming That I’m Not In Love” and “Immediately” glowing with an energized synth-pop groove. “Pull The Rug” sees them infusing a different ’80s influence: dream-pop. I have to say, I like what I hear.
Scratchy acoustic guitars anchor the opening as hazy sonics billow up behind, vocals arrive in a melancholy mix of dream and drift, and do so contemplating the art of self-destruction. And then, those gentle dreampop vibes explode into scintillating shoegaze salvos, and the song moves from understament to anthemic!
But the great thing about this song, a song already full of great things (the dynamic soundscaping, those glorious outro vocals, the move from understament to intensity in the blink of an eye…and so on) is that, as much as I keep pointing at reference points from, let’s face it, well before they was even born, this sounds nothing less than a band working in the here and now. Not so much the sound of the past, more the logical extension of some of its finest moments.
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