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Track Listings
| 1. Prebirth |
| 2. The New Beginning |
| 3. Out on a Limb |
| 4. Summerland |
| 5. Lunatic Soul |
| 6. Where the Darkness Is Deepest |
| 7. Near Life Experience |
| 8. Adrift |
| 9. The Final Truth |
| 10. Waiting for the Dawn |
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New to Kscope, self titled Lunatic Soul is the debut solo record from the lead singer and creative force behind the post-progressive band Riverside. Since the release of their debut album in 2003, Riverside have built a solid fan base in a genre that boasts the likes of Porcupine Tree, Opeth and Dream Theater. Lunatic Soul adds another name to this new post-progressive stable.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As an ageing hippy I was lucky enough to discover Porcupine Tree right at the start, which lead me on to all the Steven Wilson projects in their various guises and then onto the superb Riverside and now this. How anyone can say this is not like Riverside beats me. Like Riverside at their best but better. Dark soundscapes of astonishing beauty and passion, flooded with melodies; soaring, pounding. I bought the new double CD update of nosound "lightdark" at the same time and it is excellent - already had the original since it came out - but finding it hard to stop listening to lunatic soul. Just turn out the lights, turn up the volume and let your heart bleed.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I don't know if this review will prove to be useful to anyone unsure, looking to invest in the album. I'd strongly suggest you do invest. The album follows a very inward-focused theme of the 'self', 'life & death' the spiritual 'life cycle' and is an organic growth of self-sufficient tracks that still lend and blend into one another either with common musical ideas, else via progression to create a whole that cleverly almost feels cyclical with the tracks 'The New Beginning' and 'Waiting for the Dawn' both sharing related styling at the beginning and end of the album. It's ambient nature and sensitivity is balanced with raw passion, complimenting the theme of the album - this is not demonstrated through hard metal riffs, rather via every other avenue that Mariusz Duda is best at as a musician having expressed not wanting to use overdriven guitars on this project. And as the bass player for Polish Prog Rock band 'Riverside', the musical rawness in Lunatic Soul is expressed through Mariusz Duda's vocal delivery with thought-provoking, emotive and sometimes paradoxical lyrics, stomach-wrenching original basslines, and hypnotic rhythm (rhythm being a key musical component that Duda loves and wanted to explore in this album).
The album is clearly a very personal piece - the kind that requires either heavy involvement when listening on an MP3 player, else it should be turned up loud (with optimal bass settings) in a dark (candle-lit ;-)) room where you can allow yourself you be engulfed in the ambience and escape to the soundscape Duda creates.
Whilst not wishing to put down any other reviewer for this album as such a thing as music is always going to be a very personal thing, I myself do not understand an assertion that's been made that "there's plenty of better stuff out there" - I have yet to come across other music that is either as original in composition as this whilst setting the benchmark for the quality of the material. I am a huge fan of both dark prog rock and ambient folk etc and this so far is the only album I've yet come across to effectively combine such styles so effortlessly and naturally.
10/10 to Maruisz Duda, hope this album isn't a one-off.
The album is clearly a very personal piece - the kind that requires either heavy involvement when listening on an MP3 player, else it should be turned up loud (with optimal bass settings) in a dark (candle-lit ;-)) room where you can allow yourself you be engulfed in the ambience and escape to the soundscape Duda creates.
Whilst not wishing to put down any other reviewer for this album as such a thing as music is always going to be a very personal thing, I myself do not understand an assertion that's been made that "there's plenty of better stuff out there" - I have yet to come across other music that is either as original in composition as this whilst setting the benchmark for the quality of the material. I am a huge fan of both dark prog rock and ambient folk etc and this so far is the only album I've yet come across to effectively combine such styles so effortlessly and naturally.
10/10 to Maruisz Duda, hope this album isn't a one-off.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
i bought this as a recommendation after buying a riverside album second life syndrome only a week ago which was superb so much so i ordered two more riverside albums plus this one by riversides singer. Although it is different, not as heavy but more ambient to the sublime i like this even more, the singer is excellent and the singing reminds me of the Porcupine trees and opeth's more ambient stuff who just happen to be my favourite bands. Highly recommended if you like ambient dark music
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lunatic soul
i came across riverside a few years ago and i was very impressed with the quality of the music - and that comes from a person who was never into the progressive music tag, but i... Read more
Published 20 months ago by darkly disturbed
Miss this album at your PERIL!!
If you are expecting a Riverside carbon copy...don't buy this album.
If, however, you are seeking new music that will creep into the depths of your mind and stay... Read more
If, however, you are seeking new music that will creep into the depths of your mind and stay... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2009 by Shane "Camel" Carlson
A reasonable album with only a splash of Riverside
I bought this album because I think Riverside are just phenomenal and I was hoping this would fill the gap between the last and next release. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2008 by Mark Morgan
pre review review !
Really this pre review is for anyone who finds this page prior to 11th - 13th October 2008.
A new band, a new sound perhaps, but take time out to listen to any of the... Read more
A new band, a new sound perhaps, but take time out to listen to any of the... Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2008 by Mr. Simon Crawford
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