Today for the fifth instalment of Set The Tone With… We are joined by The Lunar Effect. The band draw on both classic rock and psych rock to produce something that sounds really fresh! Their music sounds both brand new but also like you have heard it before. With plenty of fuzzy blues rock thrown in there too, boy are these guys great!
A special thank you to Dingir Zu who recommended this band for this feature. You can find all about their rock music related community here.
Set The Tone With
The premise behind this post type is to get an insight into the daily lives of the bands that we love! We have given them some situations to attribute a song to and let us know why that song in particular is perfect!
You can check out the answers the band gave below, as well as jam out to the tunes they picked. Want to listen to the complete collection from this segment? Click the Spotify link below!
What is the perfect song for the gym?
Anything that is loud and angry enough to distract me from the fact I’m in a gym. Slipknot’s first album is good for this. Let’s go with Surfacing.
What is your go to happy song, when you’re angry or sad?
Anything that is loud and angry enough to distract me from the fact I’m depressed. KoRn’s first album is good for this. Let’s go with Clown.
The perfect song to put on while cooking?
Toast by Streetband. Self-explanatory.
The wind down song at the end of a long day to get you to sleep?
Anything by Neil Young. The man’s voice is a lullaby. Harvest Moon is a hard one to top.
The song by The Lunar Effect that you are most proud of?
Any of the songs we wrote from scratch, all of us in a room, just jamming. Generally, one of us will bring an idea to the table, whether it be a riff or a melody, and we all build upon it, but the ones that the five of us create organically from nothing are always special.
Call It In was probably the first one we did like this. It’s a 7-and-a-half-minute song that we wrote in 4 minutes. That’s how it’s done.
Your all time favourite rock song?
Impossible to answer. Time by Pink Floyd. Oh, it was possible.
The perfect song to set the mood on a date?
Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega. If that doesn’t get you in the mood you haven’t got a pulse. Not that that’d stop me.
A song by an amazing local band we might not know about?
The Door by Sleeping Mountain. A certified banger by a great bunch of lads. Check ’em out.
The perfect pre show song to amp you up?
Rage Against the Machine do the job nicely. It’ll have to be Snakecharmer. That breakdown. Oof.
A great song you think Fox Reviews Rock won’t have heard before?
Apple of your Eye by Turtle Skull. They’re a relatively little-known band from Australia that deserve to be heard by everyone. Their album Monoliths is a thing of beauty. Equal parts heavy and dreamy.
Fox: We do actually know of Turtle Skull they were one of our songs of the week! However I’ll never turn down the chance to hear one of their songs.
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