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A Review of Lunatic Soul: The World Under Unsun

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Released: October 31, 2025

Personnel: 

  • Mariusz Duda: bass, piccolo bass, piano and keyboards, acoustic guitar, ukulele, percussion, samples, all vocals
  • Wawrzyniec Dramowicz: drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13)
  • Marcin Odyniec: saxophone (2, 6, 8)
  • Mateusz Owczarek: guitar solo (4), soundscapes (12)

Track List:

  1. The World Under Unsun
  2. Loop of Fate
  3. Good Memories Don’t Want to Die
  4. Monsters
  5. The Prophecy
  6. Mind Obscured, Heart Eclipsed
  7. Torn in Two
  8. Hands Made of Lead
  9. Ardour
  10. Game of Life: Part I In the Court of the King of Hearts Part II Escape
  11. Confession
  12. Parallels
  13. Self in Distorted Glass
  14. The New End

 

OMG. 

This album. 

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Music of 2025 Update

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I’ve gotten terribly behind in my music updates: the last one was written back in March; meanwhile, the new music keeps on coming. In my defense I’ve been busy with the biography, and while I have indeed heard new stuff, I haven’t been able to spend a lot of time with it, let alone write about it. However, the last few weeks have found me in between authorial sessions, so I’ve had the chance to get caught up on the backlog. With the exception of two albums (Kauan’s Wayhome out November 7 and Seeming’s The World in December) everything has been released. Yes, the new Lunatic Soul is still a couple weeks away for you plebeians, but I’ve had it for a while. Of course the year isn’t over yet; there could be more out there. 

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The Music of 2025 So Far

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What have I been listening to this year? A few things have come out that I might go so far as to recommend. I have to say, what I’ve heard up to this point is better than a lot of what I heard last year; 2024 was one of the more mediocre years for music I can recall. I  have a lot of hope for 2025. 

The way things are going so far, this year looks to be one of those instrumental years. Not everything obviously, but there seems to be a fair amount of post-metal/post-rock, prog/jazz fusion, and atmospheric ambience/electronica in the pipeline. Speaking of upcoming albums, of course the BIG anticipatory release for 2025 is the new Lunatic Soul, which, last I heard, is supposed to be long enough to make into an old-school-style double album, 90 minutes worth of music (as opposed to a regular-length album stretched over two discs) and will hit in the fall. I expect we’ll learn more about that at some point (trust me…I’m a LOT more excited than I sound here!).

For some of ya, the BIG album is already out, the new Steven Wilson solo. Yeah, I’ll say some words about that.

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