NEWS
Hang in there...
...while the world goes crazy.
Like all the arts, music can be a site for resistance.
Always has been, always will be.
Our latest release, Zero Trust Mentality, was born in that week back in late 2024 when Meta had a meltdown, and the entire planet became a little more aware of how we are all hanging from a gossamer thread of broadband fibre. At the time, we were convinced that our socials were being hacked. It was a stressful, punch in the gut feeling: our hard work could be callously destroyed by forces unknown. We took steps to protect ourselves. As we did, we noticed how the language of cybersecurity websites was like a ‘found poem’, its topic the paranoid and precarious times in which we live. This became the basis for our lyrics. You can watch the video here. Just click the photo below:
Zero Trust Mentality will form part of an exciting collaboration in progress, working with Irish artist pMad and Australian band Killtoys. We can't tell you much more at this stage, as it will ruin the surprise, so stay tuned!
Interviews
We recently did some very cool interviews, chatting about our plans and influences on the Record Machine Show and our postpunk roots on Alternative Twist radio. Click on the photo and check them out on our REVIEWS page.
Seen - and heard!
Our previous release, Seen, continues to gather a lot of love, getting lots of plays from DJs and VJs alike. An empathetic meditation on the bright young things that populate every city on the weekend, this distinctly retro styled track and its accompanying video signal something of a return to our postpunk goth roots. You can watch the video here. Just click the photo below:
Limited Edition!
To mark the third birthday of Lunar Paths on November 15th, the wonderful darkwave label, Violet Hour Transmissions has released our debut album, Glimmer, as an audio cassette!
But that's not all!
Each cassette comes with a BandCamp code, so you can download a digital version of the entire album, free of charge. As if that wasn't enough, each cassette also comes with a twelve page booklet filled with lyrics and pictures, and a lovely Lunar Paths sticker.
The cassettes are issued as a limited edition, and only available from the Violet Hour Transmissions BandCamp page, so shop early to avoid disappointment.
A productive summer:
Diane has been back in the UK since September, having enjoyed a very productive and inspirational summer in Greece. Here's the results (click on the picture to watch and listen): Read all about the ideas that inspired each song on the Lunar Paths BandCamp page, and watch the videos right here. Just click the image.
All three videos were filmed just a few hundred meters from her home on Crete; the one for Lifesong was literally shot at the end of her street, and most of the Cicada video was filmed in her garden!
A busy spring:
No rest for the wicked!
We had a busy spring, with four (!) new singles and a remaster of MetaGoth#1, the release of our debut album, a remix for Sapphira Vee, two award winning videos, a couple of guest radio DJ takeover slots, our music going on rotation on a wide range of local and national radio stations, loads of airplay, playlistings, reviews, song of the week, a play of our entire video for A Star at Dawn and Alone/MetaGoth#2 on EmptyVeeTV... See our socials for full details, or read below for some of the highlights.
Click the pic below and have a listen to our remixed and remastered MetaGtoth#1, first released back in 2022:
Now, have a listen to Alone (MetaGoth#2) and see how many shared samples and sounds you can spot!
The week following the release of Alone (MetaGoth#2) was absolutely incredible. We had a ton of airplay, including the special World Goth Day show by excellent Dark Nation Radio. We made it onto the prestigious White Light/White Heat weekly postpunk/darkwave/dark synth tips list. Our full length videos are getting a lot of love on YouTube and the socials. We're quite giddy with excitement about all of it! Possibly the best of all, though, is an absolutely glowing review of our debut album, Glimmer, by the utter legend that is Mick Mercer. Among the many lovely things he said: "There’s so much here you can’t get bored. You also unravel more with each listen. Genuinely special." Read the entire review on our REVIEWS page.
Our first album!
...and we're pretty excited about it! After the recent success of our debut EP, Fuse, we decided to create another collection. This time, it was a full album containing nine tracks. We called it Glimmer, and it was released on April 6th on all platforms.
Do please have a look at our taster video on YouTube, featuring excerpts from all nine songs. , and, of course, please have a listen to the entire album! Just click the picture below.
As well as Mick Mercer's great review, you can also check out the terrific pre-release write up that we got from revered online magazine, ReGen. You'll find both on our REVIEWS page.
A Star at Dawn
Paving the way for our album Glimmer, we released a wonderful new single in late March. Called A Star at Dawn, it's out now on all platforms. You can listen to the entire track on our MUSIC page, watch the full length video on our VIDEOS page, or just have yourself a little taste right here:
...and speaking of videos, this one has won us our second award of 'Video of the Day' from the excellent online magazine, White Light White Heat! Read what they said on our REVIEWS page.
Slutty!
Diane has done a remix for darkwave diva Sapphira Vee!
Called Slutty, it's out under the name Bailigero, the new collaborative project of Sapphira and her fellow Joy Thieves comrade, Jim Marcus. Diane is just thrilled to be involved with these incredible people, who do so much to support their fellow artists, while releasing their own excellent, important, provocative, fearless and essential music. Slutty was released on March 28th. Click on the image to find out more, and do click on the names above, as these people and organisations are seriously excellent, and you need to know about them if you don't already.
Read more about The Joy Thieves here. Listen to Slutty here, and listen to Diane's remix here.
We're just delighted!
It had long been an ambition of ours to create full length videos for our music, and at last we managed it, creating a video for our January release, Halo, using just an iPhone and an online video edit suite (Lunar Paths: punk AF!).
We were pretty happy with that achievement... and then, our video for Halo was awarded ‘Video of the Day’ by the prestigious online journal White Light White Heat! We also got wonderful write-ups for Halo and for New from the excellent Onyx Music Reviews and Turn Up the Volume.
Inspired, we went on to make full length videos for New, A Star at Dawn,Alone (MetaGoth#2), Lifesong and Oubliette. All of our videos have been getting plays on VJ shows such as EmptyVee TV, and A Star at Dawn also netted a ‘Video of the Day’ accolade by White Light White Heat!
You can read all of these glowing reviews and more on our REVIEWS page, and check out all our reels on our VIDEOS page. Click on this image to watch the Halo video:
New, feat. Ben Keaton:
In February, we released an alternative Valentines Day song. 🖤 Called New, it features the poetry and spoken word performance of legendary Irish actor Ben Keaton.
Listen to New on our MUSIC page, or listen and watch the full length video on our YouTube channel, by clicking this image:
Takeover...
At the end of January, we were invited to take over an episode of Limeygit’s excellent weekly radio show, Much Ado about Bugger All.
You can listen on MixCloud.
Our first foray as DJs was such a resounding success that we've been invited back to do another show, and now Diane has done another on her own...and another!
Watch our socials for updates.
We’re playing live!
It’s been our hearts’ desire to take our show on the road, but, what with one of us living in Chicago and the other splitting time between the UK and Greece, it’s proved… tricky! However, a little thing like the Atlantic Ocean isn’t going to stand in the way of our determination. Watch this space for more information, and follow us on our socials for breaking news.
Compilations
Over the past year, we’ve had the great honour of being selected for several compilation albums, including some released on CD as well as via stream, podcast and download.
Some of these are charity albums for good causes, so do please click on the images, follow the links and consider making a purchase.
Playlists, Charts and Airplay
Gosh, where to begin!
All around the world, club DJs are playing our music at postpunk, darkwave & goth nights. Silvania, Yeraz, Heartshot and our cover of the Nick Cave classic The Ship Song have all charted on Banks Radio Australia. Lunar Paths was in Dark Soul Radio’s top ten most played artists of 2023, and both the November Highlights and December Monthly Playlist on Dukester Podcasts. Wintermute, Désar and Post Punk World have included us on their fantastic playlists, too.
Legend Oisin Lunny of Brighton’s Geek Pie Radio and the mighty Mick Mercer are staunch supporters of our work, as are Sound Obscura, Infectious Unease, Loud Cities and Bleeding Black Hearts. The indefatigable Limeygit has played just about everything we’ve ever released, and we are so honoured to have been invited to do a takeover of his show, Much Ado About Bugger All, on January 29th.
Silvania got its first airplay on the BBC in June, and the BBC also played September (in October!). Spotify 2023 Artists Wrapped informs us that we have been added to 233 playlists in the last twelve months—not too shabby for a band that’s just two years old, and yet to play live! Falling Star was included in DJ Cypher’s prestigious So Far, SO GOOD!, a playlist of his favourite forty tracks of the year. Throughout the year, Cypher has included a wide range of our recordings in a host of special shows, such as his Traveler broadcast, and his wonderful Dark Solstice.
We were thrilled to learn that Cypher also chose us for his 2023 Dark Nation Radio Favorite 40. Release the Bats Radio included us in their top 40 Ultimate Playlist for 2023. We were in the festive special edition of Songs of Preys, hosted by Wayne Hussey.
And that was just in December!
From Day One, we’ve been blessed with an abundance of airplay, and we’ve featured in many playlists, top 40s and top 10s. We have listed here just a tiny handful of recent ones.
Please see our Facebook page for details, where we try to repost all of our airplay, chart positions and inclusion on playlists, along with links to the stations, podcasts, MixClouds and so on—if you’re a DJ, blogger or playlist compiler and we’ve missed reposting, then we owe you one, so please get in touch via the relevant platform and we’ll put that right. One good turn deserves another! We are eternally grateful for each and every single play that we get, and we appreciate and adore every last one of you.
While you are visiting our socials, please follow us if you don't already, and please do consider following some of the superb little independent radio channels that have been playing our stuff. You’ll be glad that you did. They are very, very good.
And finally…
After the success of Shine on SoundCloud, which bagged us close to 20,000 streams, we decided that the time was right to take things to the next level, and so we signed up to Distrokid. This means that you can download, purchase and stream our music from any and all of the major platforms, including SoundCloud and BandCamp. You really are spoiled for choice, and have run out of excuses to not listen to our music morning, noon and night. We also have a YouTube channel, and, of course, we are across all the socials. When you’ve done browsing this site, please use the icons on this page to explore our other platforms, and give us a ❤ and a follow.
