MOONLEE RECORDS - Lunar

SHOOT ME AGAIN | www.shootmeagain.com | written in French

Quand je chope le CD en main je me dis "tiens vla un split cd de LUNAR avec un groupe que je ne connais pas : TURBO"...Mais non, en fait c'est le nom de l'album, que je suis con...je me suis laissé avoir par la présentation du art-work.

On met le CD est on rentre dans une musique très post-rock. Musique contemplative où la création de monde enchanteurs s'enchaine à l'évocation d'émotions. On se laisse porter par une musique qui au début ressemble à du GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR. Mais ooohh là, on va pas se borner à dire cela de leur musique. Ce sont pas des novices du genre! Certains d'entre vous connaissent déjà peut-être leur « there is no 1 » sortis sur Delboy Records et Carnival Tunes Records. Depuis ce disque une petite valse de guitaristes a fait son chemin...pour en arriver à ce qu'est LUNAR aujourd'hui. Ceci est leur troisième album, et ce disque vaut le détour.

J'ai d'abord fait la comparaison avec GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR pour le morceau "il grabador grande"...mais lorsque l'on passe sur "pizza song" on entre dans un voyage instrumental plus énergique, plus mélodique, moins contemplatif...Un peu peu comme le groupe belge TOMAN, voir les suédois de LOGH. Ensuite on tombe sur un morceau plus calme, un nouveau voyage dans la musique du groupe à travers "dancefloor zgaba"...Vous l'aurrez compris ce troisème album est superbement bien construit. Un son super propre...masi bon, je dirais que pour profiter de ce genre de zique il faut un son hyper propre.

J'accroche bien. C'est peut-être pas le genre de post-rock auquel j'accroche le plus mais je me laisse bercer par leur musique et je me retrouve facilement à réécouter leur disque. C'est néanmoins le genre de groupe qu'il me plairait de voir au Rhaaa Lovely Festival, car l'alternance énergie et calme est agréable.

Chroniqué par julien le 24-05-2005

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AVERSIONLINE | www.aversionline.com | written in English

I've never heard of this Croatian band before, but this is their third full-length, though ironically their second full-length was never released, as it was recorded digitally and a malfunction of some sort lost the files forever. Which brings us to this rather strong effort having been recorded entirely using analog means, so it sounds nice and natural and lays a solid foundation for their largely instrumental brand of moody and melodic music. In many ways they're slightly similar to their labelmates and fellow Croatians in Don't Mess With Texas, as this music seems to be inspired by both the emo/indie rock scene as well as more of a lush and lightly experimental sort of droning modern rock twist (think hints of Coldplay, Radiohead, etc.), so the compositions tend to be fairly calm and restrained, but there are some bits and pieces that get a little more intense and rhythmic. "Pizza Song" is among the only tunes that has some distant vocals that are sort of quietly spoken/sung, but despite some unfortunate song titles the aesthetic of the music is actually quite emotional, and the lyrics (which are not included since there are almost no vocals) seem to be serious as well. I'm not really a big fan of bands using silly song titles like "Pizza Song" or "Retard Numerique" (among others) when the characteristics of their music are much more moving and serious, but I can easily overlook it in this case because I really like what these guys are doing. Lunar is definitely a fitting band name for the group, as there's somewhat of a spacey quality happening at times, especially when the music is a little less traditional and the use of effects on the guitars gets a little heavier. "Radio Free Interference" is definitely darker, opening with more of an ambient undercurrent and using some samples before proceeding into a slow march that has a really somber atmosphere lingering about, eventually building into a louder and more gripping display of instrumentation. "My Moon" follows and is also a slightly longer than average piece, keeping the slower and more somber feel and bringing in some effects over the percussion to add some additional depth to the composition. Among the more indie rock sounding material are songs such as "Davorova Grana", which is probably the most openly discordant track in its use of jagged chord phrasings and layers of both clean and distorted guitars. The last song, "Bee-Bop", is the only one I'm not fond of, as its brief 1:40 running time and use of spoken samples over electronic sounding beats just feels out of place amidst such beautiful songwriting elsewhere. The production sounds pretty damn good to me, though. There's a lot of brightness to some of the drumming as well as the guitars, so there's a nice high-end ring going on over the punchy kick drums and plodding basslines, which both offer plenty of density to keep things in place. It's a really crisp and warm mix that lets all of the details shine through. A lot of times the guitar in the left channel feels a little louder than the guitar in the right channel, but that does kind of give the bass more breathing room, and it places more emphasis on the interaction between guitar lines and swirling effects, which is a nice touch. There's not much going on visually, as it's mainly just red and blue textures with some star shapes and consistent text throughout the design for the credits and tracklist. It looks pretty good, though. This is a very nice piece of work. The band has a real knack for writing compositions that are repetitious and build around a theme without getting boring at all. I have to say though, despite the fact that they know how to handle themselves as an almost entirely instrumental unit, I'd like to hear them bring vocals in more often, as their strongest and most moving melodies could be made even more emotional with the right vocal performances. Who knows? Good work either way. This is another obscure band that deserves far more attention, so I hope that international boundaries won't harm them in that regard. Very nice.

[Notable tracks: Pizza Song, Radio Free Interference, Davorova Grana]

7/10

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PEPPER ZONE | www.pepper-zone.com | written in French

Lunar, formation croate existante depuis 1998, n'en ai pas à son coup d'essai puisqu'il s'agit ici de son troisième opus, le premier pour le label Moonlee records. Le groupe nous offre vraiment une petite perle, ce "turbo" n'allant pas vite du tout, respirant au contraire l'harmonie et la paix sonore. Les onze compositions du skeud' sont dans une veine post rock instrumentale à tendance atmosphérique (tout un programme...). Guitares en reverb', batterie souple, Lunar ne s'embarrasse pas de grands nombres d'instruments, histoire de ne pas brouiller les pistes et de nous offrir un résultat dépouillé mais superbement intimiste. Plus grand chose d'autre à dire, si ce n'est que cette galette est très belle, et mérite vraiment d'être découverte. Seul petite ombre au tableau, la pochette hideuse nous rappelant plus une vague mission de la nasa qu'un disque de Post rock langoureux et subtil...

\\Punk sportif

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MASHNOTE | www.mashnote.net | written in English

This record immediately reminds me of early Explosions In The Sky. But listening to the whole cd, variety comes in. The atmospheric post-rock makes place for more up-tempo rock with sparse vocals (which are quite good, though most songs are instrumental). Saying Lunar's just a rip-off, your thirteenth in a dozen post-rockband, would be a bullshit thing to do. They've been around for quite some time now and you could call them one of Europe's best in its genre. Although post-rockers aren't quite as hot as a few years ago, Lunar keep their head up and do what they're still good at. No compromises, analog und ehrlich.

[hans]

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OX FANZINE | www.ox-fanzine.de | written in German

Musik aus Kroatien? Diese Kombination war mir bisher nur vom Eurovision Song Contest bekannt, und was ich da zu hören bekam, hat mir - gelinde gesagt - nicht gerade Freudentränen in die Augen getrieben. Zweitens sind mir Bands aus dem Osten Europas immer nur in mehr oder weniger charmant rumpeligem Sound begegnet.

Gut, dass ich nun "Turbo", veröffentlicht auf einem slowenischen Label übrigens, in die Finger bekomme, damit ich mal mit meinen eigenen Vorurteilen aufräumen kann. LUNAR spielen instrumentale Musik, die beinahe obligatorisch einige Sprach-Samples verwendet, ganz selten aber auch mal einen Musiker zu Wort kommen lässt.

In der Instrumentalmusik habe ich bisher zwei Hauptströme ausmachen können. Einerseits die raue, trockene, vertrackte Spielart, für deren Beschreibung gerne die Worte "post-" oder "Chicago" verwendet werden. Andererseits, und darum handelt es sich hierbei, Gitarrenpop, der schlicht auf den Gesang verzichtet.

Gemächliche und nachvollziehbare Songstrukturen prägen das Bild, Spannung wird in der Regel durch Veränderung der Lautstärke erzeugt. Musik dieser Art läuft häufig Gefahr, zur Hintergrundmusik zu verkommen, da es scheinbar wenig gibt, das die Aufmerksamkeit des ungeübten Zuhörers halten könnte, der geübte Zuhörer hingegen lässt sich einfach in die Musik fallen und genießt einen wunderbar entspannenden Trip aus dem Alltag.

(47:21) (7)

© by OX-FANZINE [58] und Christian Meiners

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PUNK INTERNATIONAL | www.punkinternational.com | written in English

Lots of instrumental indie rock is really eccentric, mathy, just generally erratic. Most of the time it just seems that lyrics and vocals could never feasibly be part of the music. Croatia's Lunar is something of an exception. It's not that they play elementary 4/4 rock and roll without singing, but "Turbo" has a steady pace to it and a beat you can nod your head to. It's refreshing, and I'd say about as universally enjoyable as music gets, because nobody can say they just wish the singer would shut up.

Granted, Lunar inevitably lose some of the personality that comes along with a distinct vocalist and gifted lyricist, and the fact that their music doesn't boast a lot of idiosyncrasies means they're fighting an uphill battle to reach listeners and keep them hooked. If you do give them a spin, and I recommend you do if you like such groups as Mogwai or Tortoise, I think they'll make a convincing case. Their textures and soundscapes are no amateur designs, and their rock and roll drive is impossible to disagree with.

by Tim Krysko on Mon Apr 04 2005

Rating: 80%

Grade: A-

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PASSIONE ALTERNATIVA | www.passionealternativa.it | written in Italian

Dialettiche facciali di una sola intensità dovuta, dialettiche circostanziali di una immaginaria forma intensa di magie retroattive, spinte in determinate zone sofisticate e arpeggianti, dialettiche di una sostanziale qualità di alto borgo, che si delinea fortemente su circoncisioni paragnoste, piccole delucidazioni di un potenziale largamente rinomato, che involontariamente crea e distrugge poetiche di nessun martirio, di nessuna abdicazione. Liberamente riconosciuti da un'insaziabile volontà di appartenere a loro stessi, liberamente tratti da una narrativa forte e determinata a vivere, anche grazie alla proprio inesistenza lacerante, inesistenza fortificata. Miserazioni e sconvolgimenti raggianti, perdite logorate dal vento candido mar, dal emarginato sospiro del libeccio mattutino, della colorazione serale. Forti emarginazioni dolenti, rinforzate dalla solita accentrata voglia di facoltose realtà, di originali trovate pubblicitarie. Padri fondatori di una musica oltre il mare, i Lunar, gruppo proveniente dalla Slovenia vicino a noi, esibisce fortemente le proprie carestie attraverso la sua simpatica fertilità di immaginazione, attraverso la sua magnifica gravitazione interna, creata appositamente per stupire e lasciarsi andare, lasciarsi trasportare dalla mentalità mentale. Musicanti di un post rock d'avanguardia, sottolineato in gran visione, da una accentuata volontà acustica che minimizza contemporaneamente l'intera esibizione secolare, l'intera trasparenza visiva di un progetto progettato per risolvere, per immagazzinare. Sound prelibati dal palato sottile, che innestano fatalmente anche ipnotiche determinazioni emo core, assorbiti in apnea da lussuose forme di interrogazioni preliminari, confessioni lubrificate. Nervosismi assoluti di emergenze sonore, nervosismi melodici che inoltrano fatalmente una determinazione immersa nel lieto stare, una delucidazione confusa nel triste epilogo. Emozioni ed emotività da passionali non standard, unicamente coinvolgenti in assenza di prelibatezze comuni, emanazioni di una convinzione veritiera che lotta continuamente con la propria bellezza interiore, con la propria lucentezza esistenziale. Dilatate immaginazioni del pretendere sempre e comunque, dilatate realtà che riemergono collettivamente in un'unica gravità possessiva, dilatazioni che perfezionano perfettamente l'immensa costruzione virile, di un lavoro perennemente assolto, che umanizza selettivamente in varie occasioni primarie, occasioni fondamentalmente uniche.

Voto:9

Marzo 2005

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BROKEN VIOLENCE | www.brokenviolence.de | written in German

Der zweite Moonlee-Release überhaupt ist gleichzeitig die dritte Platte von Lunar, bei denen zwei Leute spielen, die zuvor in Gone Bald waren (Bassist und Schlagzeuger), einer kroatisch-holländischen Noise-Band, welche vor zwei Jahren mit "Soul Vacation In Rehab Clinic" ein sehr interessantes Album via Interstellar Records herausbrachte. Nachdem die beiden, Bojan und Nixa, also Gone Bald verlassen hatten, verschlissen sie erst mal einige Gitarristen, bis sie in Davor und Mijo schließlich welche fanden, mit denen es auch längerfristig weitergehen konnte. Die erste Platte "There Is No 1" erschien bereits 2000 auf Carnival Tunes/Delboy Records, und mit der zweiten, welche zufälligerweise "First And Last Lost" heißen sollte, kam es zu einem Zwischenfall, der so mancher Band nicht ganz unwahrscheinlich das Rückgrat gebrochen hätte. Denn die Platte war bereits komplett eingespielt und fix und fertig, bis irgendwann, so die Info-Mär, die digitalen Aufnahme- und Speichermedien keine Lust mehr hatten und jede weitere Zusammenarbeit mittels eines Komplett-Crashes verweigerten. Kurz: die ganze Platte war auf einem Schlag weg, futsch, alles im Arsch. Ein guter Zeitpunkt für Lunar, fortan wieder ausschließlich auf analoges Aufnahme-Equipment zu vertrauen: "In keeping true to the spirit, they bought the biggest fucking analog recorder in the world." Und auch wenn ich keine der älteren Aufnahmen von Lunar je gehört habe, die Anschaffung dieser fucking Maschine hat sich zweifelsohne gelohnt, die Platte ist genauso und gut, wie es ihr neues Label, Moonlee Records, verspricht: "Their third full-length, and first for the Moonlee Records, is named "Turbo" because that"s how it sounds. Gigantic and great. An appropriate title for mostly instrumental music which consists of dynamic and propulsive rhythms interwoven with delicate guitars. "Turbo" is a sound of wandering through nebula or a soundtrack for the solar eclipse. Turbo is a mysterious space travel followed by a pleasant return to earth. However, it may be something completely different. As it is already said, one should rather listen and hear it." Stilistisch ähneln Lunar ihren weiter oben abgefeierten Labelmates von Don't Mess With Texas nicht nur insofern, dass ihre Musik über weite Strecken instrumental angelegt ist, auch die dort genannten Bands könnte ich an dieser Stelle erneut aufzählen (minus 90 Day Men, denn auf Pianogeklimper wird bei Lunar ganz verzichtet). Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass Lunar selbst auch viel von diesem ganzen Chicago-Kram gehört haben, was sich nun bei ihnen ebenfalls wiederfindet, wobei sie diese Neigung zu so Space-Themen u.a. mit Bands wie Man Or Astro-Man? gemein zu haben scheinen; im Booklet steht zum Beispiel "Thanks to Jurij Gagarin for his efforts in exploring space." Damit nicht nur DDR-Kinder das verstehen: der erste Mensch im All natürlich. Mit dieser Platte kann man sich selbst vergleichsweise kostengünstig und ungefährlich und rein mental dorthin begeben, was ich auch ausdrücklich empfehle. Sehr gut, das alles, also am besten gleich im Verbund mit der neuen Analena (Moonlee-Platte Nr.1) und den schon erwähnten Don't Mess With Texas (Moonlee Nr. 3) im Moonlee Records Onlineshop bestellen, welche also bis dato ausnahmslos super Sachen veröffentlicht haben. Damit übertreibe ich keine Spur.........und bin gespannt was womöglich alles noch kommen wird. (Thomas Jänsch)

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CREATIVE ECLIPSE | www.creative-eclipse.com | written in German

Weitgehend treibende, nachdenkliche instrumentale Musik ist auf "Turbo", dem eigentlich dritten Album dieser seit 1998 bestehenden und aus Kroatien stammenden Band. Das zweite Album "First And Las Lost" ging aufgrund eines Datenverlustes komplett verloren, dies war unter anderem auch ein Grund warum die Band zur guten alten analogen Aufnahme zurückkehrte. Die zwölf Songs auf "Turbo" sind mal direkt rockend, dann wieder mit allerlei psychedelischen Elementen, die gerne auch ins spacige Gefielde abdrfiten. Mondspaziergang und so... ich mag's. -

Rating: 7.5/10

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TRUE SIDE MUSIC | www.truesidemusic.de | written in English

And here comes another release from Moonlee Records from Slovenia. Till I get this CD I had no idea about the Slovenian and Croatian music scene, but now I know that there are great bands. LUNAR was born in 1998 in Croatia. After realising their debut album "there is no 1" 2000 on Carnival Tunes Records and Delboy Records, they played in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia & Montenegro and Germany. So maybe you know the band already. After that they wanted to release their second CD "First and Last Lost", but the digital machinery containing the record's files broke down. There was no backup and so the LP was lost. But now they are back with a new CD. "Turbo" is complete instrumental, just a few spoken parts. Only drums, guitars, bass and sometimes some samples or other gimmicks. That's all (the guys really know how to use their instruments). With these ingredients LUNAR builds a great atmosphere, which is perfect for a quite evening. "Turbo" sounds like APPLESEED CAST or THE DECEMBER DRIVE, but without the singing and screaming. Great Post-Rock from Croatia. I've really enjoyed this album.

Our rating: 7 of 10 stars

written by AgonizingScream

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CRACKED | www.monochrom.at/cracked | written in English

Lunar are another band to bring the "rock" back into postrock (by the way, thanks a lot) as well as some noise and some slow and soft plus the tendency to play epics condensed into a few minutes of song. Mostly instrumental the band picks up speed gently, using different details and ideas to add to their simplistically constructed songs. Most of the time the musicians seem to have their music and instruments under complete control, carefully guiding them along the lines and pathways defined beforehand. So much though, that at times you wish they'd cut it loose a little. And they will, at times, but always take it back again.

The title of this record, "turbo", gives away only half of the truth. Admittedly, Lunar are able to churn out some forceful songs that go straight ahead into their intended direction, but there are also a lot of slow and delicate moments laid bare and open on this record. "Belka I Strelka" for instance builds up around a simple line of four notes only that grows from soft and gentle indie-strumming to a hill of music where the wind blows heavy but the view is exciting. The abrupt end of the song is a bit of a letdown though, because imagining where it could have gone from there is a real thrill. So I wonder if Lunar only recorded abbreviated versions of their songs for this record or if they could be coerced into playing 15-minute mountain-dinosaur-versions of them live.

Moreover, the record starts with gentle reverbs and picked notes on a heavily distorted guitar. True, it could go anywhere from there, mostly because this intro reminds me a lot of what Neurosis play before they break into their customary patented full-force noise-tornadoes. Lunar, on the other hand, take the intensity back again even more, introducing a few noisy guitar sounds and then stop the song to get to the next one. Don't get me wrong, that introductory track "grabador grande" is beautiful, intricate and delicately recorded, full of warm, empty spaces and echoes of nice dreams. But for a record called "turbo" the element of losing control, letting go and burning rubber is definitely missing. I can actually see them counting along while they play. Oh wait, that is the same badmouthing that postrock always used to get: too much math! Well not Lunar, because they are surely not folks to get too theoretical on their music; it has too much organism and body for that.

The singing on "Pizza Song" – the only song with actual vocals on it – reminds me a lot of Muse, to be honest. But that is not a bad thing in itself, not at all. But it makes me wonder if Lunar were looking for a hitsingle to be played on alternative stations. That would be a surprise to any buyer who knows nothing but the single and then gets an album of instrumentals. Well, singles don't have to be representative in any way, and there is always the possibility of being a trained and attentive consumer and take a listen into what you are buying. Hell, I see a lot of people at the big electro-tv-video-cd-store in my vicinity listening to each and every track of maxi-CDs by chart-acts such as Robbie Williams or Kelis (who has for instance has "Trick Me" and seven remixes on her single, what a drag…), but those might all be suffering from some strange form of compulsive-obsessive mistrust-disorder. Thinking about it, I prefer people not afraid of taking chances when buying records, and actually, everyone who picks up this one by chance, mistake or whatever unintentional reason is rewarded greatly.

Of course, Lunar and their label are in close connections to other bands from their area (counting all of ex-yugoslavia and wider parts of Central Europa as "their area"), such as Gone Bald, Don't Mess with Texas and Radio Free Isaac. All in all I think that Lunar is not a band a lot of people will go berserk about, creating websites and fanpools, writing them love-letters or having their logo tattoed on their necks, but rather one of the many bands that a lot of people get to know and like and listen to - because that is what they are really best at: being listened to – but a lot more won't. After all, to spend fifty minutes with a good CD is better than a lot of other things imaginable. Finally, I am thinking that I should re-arrange my introductory sentence to: "Lunar, bringing back the rock into postpunk."

02/2005

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MUNNEZZA | www.munnezza.it | written in Italian

I Lunar sono ragazzi con la passione (reale?) per l'astronautica e con un culto particolare (o è solo un pretesto?) per Yuri Gagarin, il primo uomo nello Spazio. In ogni caso, la loro musica - ariosa, dilatata, morbidamente itinerante, ma non senza una spiccata ed epica tensione di fondo - rispecchia fedelmente l'immaginario iconografico preso in prestito.

Il contrasto tra la dolcezza e l'irresistibile emotività delle melodie, il nervosissimo delle ritmiche e l'intermittente grinta delle chitarra, aggiunte ad un utilizzo moderato di elementi post e space rock "analogico" (rare le incursioni elettroniche), crea una trama sonora fantastica e discretamente peculiare. Per quanto sobria, essenziale e mai pretenziosa.
Il canovaccio è quasi interamente strumentale; quando la voce appare - una sola volta, in Pizza song - essa si avvicina incredibilmente a quella di Thom Yorke. Con tutte le conseguenze del caso.

"Turbo" è il secondo lavoro per questa talentuosa band nata nel 1998 ed è un disco semplicemente stupendo. Da avere.

file under: instrumental emo/post-rock

rsvp: Mogwai, The Appleseed Cast.

(aob - 28/1/05)

rating: 4/5

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HELLDRIVER MAGAZINE | www.helldriver-magazine.de | written in German

Lunar aus Kroatien veröffentlichen mit Turbo bereits ihr drittes Album. Der Titel "Turbo" ist etwas irreführend, da sich die Band keineswegs in einem Geschwindigkeitsrausch befindet. Geboten wird dynamischer Gitarrensound irgendwo zwischen Muse und Elliot mit einem Schuss ...and you will know us by the Trail Of Dead. Mal sehr verträumt und melodisch, dann wieder zu lauten Soundorgien anschwellend. Gesungen wird bei Lunar nur in einem Song, der Rest der 45 Minuten langen Platte ist komplett instrumental. Dabei schafft es die Band die Songs interessant zu halten, so dass man den Gesang keineswegs vermisst. Wirklich schöne Melodien treffen auf treibende Beats und nehmen den Hörer mit auf eine interessante Reise in verträumte Soundlandschaften. Dabei wird die Band nie zu lasch oder langweilig, sonder fordert vom Hörer immer eine gewisse Aufmerksamkeit und aktives Zuhören ein. Die Platte ist in sich absolut stimmig und eignet sich bestens dazu dem Alltag zu entfliehen. (rg)

Genre: Post-irgendwas
Wertung: 5 / 7

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HALO 17 | www.halo-17.net | written in English

European rockers Lunar have knocked out a frustratingly good album in Turbo - frustrating because although it is good, it could have been so much better but for a few things which let it down.

Turbo isn't so much post-rock as it is post-garage-rock, half way between Mogwai and Magic Dirt, which makes it mellow and melancholic like most good post-rock, but less epic, more straight forward. Tracks like Belka I Strelka especially contribute to this feeling, and you can almost imagine Adalita's voice cutting in at any moment with some teen angsty lyrics. That's not to say Turbo is simplistic - it has all the musicality of a good Mogwai album, just less ambitiously styled, with bite-sized pieces rather than album-long meandering sound scapes. Then you hit tracks like Radio Free Interference, which with volume loud and bass up is as driving and forceful as any Mogwai power ballad, but weighing in at under six minutes it is much more digestible than your standard post-rock epic.

However the shortness of the songs on this album, as well as the brevity of the album itself, is one of the problems with Turbo. Good post-rock picks you up and carries you somewhere, but Turbo is too abbreviated to do that well, reaching crescendos without sufficient build up and moving on to the next track before you've finished experiencing this one. It's more like a post-rock sampler than a post-rock album, and lasting just over forty seven minutes it's almost an EP, despite its eleven tracks. Davorova Grana is the biggest culprit: opening with solid bass which eventually underlies the most intriguing guitar riff on the album, Davorova Grana has the potential to be a knock-out track, but it cuts off prematurely at under three minutes.

What there is of Turbo is for the most part really good, and there is no filler as such. However there are two tracks which seriously bug me. Pizza Song, the second track on the album, is a perfectly fine song, but it doesn't belong on Turbo; the lyrics lift this out of post-rock and drop it back into garage rock, and it disturbs the flow of the album, especially if like me you pop Turbo on repeat due to its short length. Don't get me wrong, it is not a bad song, just out of place. Bee-Bop, which closes the album, is annoying for similar reasons: after knocking out an album of emotive, expressive guitar rock, why would you want to sign off with a minute and a half of synthesised electro-pop? It is incongruous in the extreme.

For all my griping though, I really enjoyed Turbo. Pieces like Radio Free Interference and Retard Numerique - the stand out tracks on the album - show you that Lunar have a great sound, and a fantastic songwriting ability. The problem with Turbo isn't that there is actually anything really wrong with it, it's just that there isn't enough of it. In any post-rock release, six eight minute tracks is a lot better than eleven four minute tracks, and if Lunar begin to stretch out their songs and pace them for a longer musical experience, we could see them rise to the top of their genre - they certainly have the skill.

Turbo is a good album, and a hint of far better things to come from Lunar.

- Castor Quinn

Castor's Rating: 6.9

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SEMTEX | www.semtexinc.com | written in English

Lunar was born in 1998 in Croatia and is closely related to bands as Gone Bald, Bojan, Don't Mess With Texas and Radio Free Isaac. Their debut album "There Is No 1" was released by Carnival Tunes and Delboy in 2000. Their second album "First And Last Lost" was supposed to be released by the same record labels. However, the digital machinery containing the record's files broke down. No backup was found and the record was lost forever. Shortly thereafter – according to the onesheet accompanying this cd – "Lunar bought the biggest fucking analog recorder in the world".

This third full length is named "Turbo". The cd version is released by the excellent Moonlee Records (Analena, Don't Mess With Texas) out of Slovenia. The vinyl version of this album is done by the Belgian friendly all-round collective Vlas Vegas.

Lunar brings music that needs some time and attention to unfold its true beauty. "Turbo" is mainly instrumental and unties a dynamic and sometimes mysterious sound. The base for that mix is made up by drums, guitars and bass backed up by some atmospheric resonance and samples when appropriate. But this album never is a flight into the timeless and unknown. The crescendos mostly fold out into a steady rocking song. And that's the thing I love about "Turbo". Just when the experimentalism starts to grow and the band apparently loses touch with the ground, they're throwing in this dynamic rocking riffing and rhythm.

When listening to this third full length by Lunar, I've always felt a connection with The Appleseed Cast. Especially the first song on this disc called "Il Grabador Grande" tends towards The Appleseed Cast. And when I say The Appleseed Cast, we're getting close to bands as Modest Mouse or Mogwai. But I wouldn't push it that far for Lunar. They're more rock and less athmospheric. But anyway, if you're into this type of post rock you'll be happy to discover Lunar.

I've really enjoyed this album. This just has a way about it. "Turbo" has beautiful song structures, dissonant guitars, steady rock pieces and dense atmospherics. When added up, you've got yourself a more than good product. Thumbs up.

[bytte]

Author score: 7 out of 10

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JUTARNJI LIST | written in Croatian

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Iskustva ne nedostaje ni Lunaru kojemu je "Turbo", ako ne računamo u digitalnoj havariji zauvijek izgubljen "First and Last Lost", drugi album. Debijem "There is No 1" Lunar je lako pridobio publiku KSET-a, Močvare i srodnih klubova, koja obožava instrumentalni post-rock, noise, Tortoise, Slint, Trans Am, Sonic Youth i srodne bendove, a albumom "Turbo" krug poklonika mogao bi se proširiti. "Turbo" je, prije svega, izvrsno produciran album monumentalnog sounda, posebice u segmentu gitara i bubnjeva, te s mjestimice vrlo umješnim pretapanjem klasične rock postave i elektronike. Pravo iznenađenje je gotovo Coldplayevski postavljena vokalno-instrumentalna "Pizza Song".
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Aleksandar Dragaš, 20.01.2005.

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STORM INSIDE | www.storminside.net | written in Slovenian

Če dobro pomislim so bili Lunar prvi postrock bend, ki je pritegnil mojo pozornost do te mere, da sem si šel ob koncu nastopa kupit zgoščenko. S tem želim izpostaviti, da je besedica postrock dobila svoj pravi pomen šele ob njihovi glasbi in me sčasoma zvabila v vso to brezčasno inštrumentalno popotovanje, ki mi je bilo do takrat tuje. Takrat je šlo za eleganten "There is no 1", tukaj pa že imam svežo "Turbo" zgoščenko. Ta si je sorodna s prejšnjo, se pa obenem tudi razlikuje saj je glasba polnejša in zrelejša, pa tudi manj uspavalna, a še vedno pomirjujoča. Kdor je preposlušal dosti post-rocka bo vedel kako so si tovrstni bendi sila podobni, ampak Lunar so si v svojih šestih letih trdega dela ustvarili svoj teritorij. Glasba je zelo poslušljiva in prijetna, dobri komadi pa se kar vrstijo in bi lahko rekel, da slabega komada na ploščku skorajda ni. Mogoče le elektronski "Bee-bop", pa še tu gre bolj za zaključek kot kaj drugega. Vse ostalo je krasno, okusno, rahlo-melanholično, celo romantično. Kot da bi zapadel sneg. Kot na prejšnjem izdelku, tudi tokrat obogatijo en komad z vokalom ("Pizza song"), le ta pa v celoti nima kakšnega večjega pomena, tako kot tudi ovitek z rdečo zvezdo na modri podlagi. Ne vem kako je kaj z njihovo prepoznavnostjo izven Hrvaške in Slovenije, ampak bilo bi škoda, če bi ostali neprepoznavni. Konec koncev gre za najboljši postrock kar jih boste našli tod okoli!

(Ivo 18.01.05)

ocena: 8/10
najboljši komad: Tgemolo

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PUNKSTATION | www.punkstation.it | written in Italian

Secondo parto per la neonata Moonlee Records, label alternative Slovena, che in soli quindici giorni è stata capace di far uscire tre dischi d' alta qualità, tra cui questo "Turbo" per l' appunto, terza uscita discografica ufficiale dei Lunar. Un disco particolare in cui una chitarra delicata e arpeggiata racconta e sostituisce le parole e le linee vocali cònsone della musica. Onnipresente in ogni parte di qualsivoglia pezzo, racconta e lascia immaginare, descrive l' orizzonte di un testo inesistente senza mai arrivarci, tenendo l' ascoltatore per mano e guidandolo in un lungo viaggio. Un viaggio di circa 50 minuti di musica strumentale in cui chiudere gli occhi e lasciarsi andare. In cui rilassanti atmosfere si intervallano a passaggi di batteria semplici e costanti regalando grandi emozioni e idee brillanti. Un genere emozionale, in cui di distorto non esiste nulla, di urlato tanto meno e gli stacchi veloci non sono assolutamente all' ordine del giorno. Un gruppo capace d' esser grande per lo scarno motivo d' esser semplice. Un gruppo che si distingue dalla massa senza mai esagerare, che riesce a catturare con strana semplicità. Dei poeti della musica, ecco... sì. Dei poeti della musica.

Recensione a Cura di Salva (31.12.2004)

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ŽVPL | www.zvpl.com | written in Slovenian

Lunar je skupina iz sosednjega Zagreba, ki ima pri nas že napol kultni status. Ustvarili so si ga s svojo prvo ploščo There is No 1, ki je izšla pri založbi Carnival Tunes/Delboy in z večkrat napovedanimi, kot izvedenimi živimi nastopi, ki pa so pri publiki pustili globok vtis.

Vse to se je dogajalo še preden so v naše kraje začeli pogosteje zahajati njihovi post rockovski somišljeniki iz druge strani luže, kot so Explosion in the sky ali Godspeed you black emperor. Po nekaj letih se je končno pojavila njihova druga oz. neuradno tretja plošča Turbo. Legenda namreč pravi, da naj bi se vmesna plošča izgubila, še preden se je digitalni zapis lahko prenesel na konkretne nosilce zvoka, čeprav je bila izdaja že dogovorjena pri njihovi prvotni založbi. Turbo, tokrat izdan pri gospodu Moonlee, posnet pa bolj kot ne analogno v domačem studiu, gradi oz. nadgrajuje kar je bilo začeto na prvi plošči. Pričnejo instrumentalno, nato pa sledi presenečenje. V drugi pesmi (Pizza song) Lunar spregovorijo. Glas, ki se je na prvi plošči pojavil zgolj kot podlaga v obliki izsečka iz filma, zdaj dejansko zamenja človek. So obrnili hrbet tradiciji in postali vokalni bend? Ne. Za tem instrumentalno nadaljujejo svojo kozmično odisejado občutkov in zvokov. Če ste ljubitelj ameriških znanstveno fantastičnih filmskih klasik, njihove B produkcije ali pa ruske ZF literature, potem so Lunar tisti, ki znajo v glavah pričarati neskončna vesoljska prostranstva in opustele ravnice neznanih planetov. Turbo popotovanje se konča z Bee-bop, kjer še drugič in zadnjič pesem vokalno osvežitvijo, kar doda njihovi glasbi dodatno dimenzijo, primerno da se zaokroži njihovo popotovanje.

Na svidenje v vesolju.

Ocena: 4 od 4 črk ŽVPL-ja

Domen Repnik

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HOMBRE | www.hombrezone.com | written in Croatian

Vjerojatno ću slušatelju namjerniku pokvariti doživljaj i eliminirati faktor iznenađenja, no ne mogu se suzdržati: imamo najupečatljivijeg kandidata za "satori bljesak 2004". Trenutak "udarca u oko" ili barem spoznaje da svjedočite nečem posebnom počinje kada na kraju hipnotičke «Il Grabador Grande», uvodne pjesme trećeg albuma Lunar, kroz plin i gustu prašinu nebule izranja iscrpljen glas koji s dozom oklijevanja poručuje: «Vratili smo se. Dobro je.». Pred očima se ukazuju konture umornih astronauta kako se klate na rubu kratera. Nakon brzog odlaska u šum i sekunde stanke slika se gasi, započinje dinamična vožnja sjajne "Pizza Song" i vi ste odljepljeni od stvarnosti. Dakle, samo nekoliko momenata je dovoljno da skopčate kako se pred vašim osjetilima prostrlo remek djelo.

Uglavnom, Lunar su se vratili i dobro je. Zapravo, sjajno je. Postava je konsolidirana, a nesreća izgubljenog drugog albuma (cijeli zapis je nestao u havariji hard diska, a band se nakon toga zakleo kako će se držati analognog snimanja) ostavljena u aoristu. Lunar opet po svom protokolu smireno trče krugove, broje taktove kao zrna na brojanici/krunici i sigurnim obrtničkim rukama konstruiraju svoje mahom instrumentalne mantre. "Turbo" zvuči upravo onako kako je nazvan: moćno, sigurno i intenzivno. Da su Lunar predane zanatlije, vidi se iz toga koliko pažnje pridaju svakom detalju svojih pjesama, neovisno o tome da li je u pitanju segment pjesmoklepstva ili produkcije. Iako bi mi i sami članovi banda vjerojatno proturječili (ili se barem sarkastično nasmijali), ispada kako i "nemarni" naslovi pjesama ovdje imaju svoju funkciju: otjerati mrski snobizam koji se često imputira uz glazbu kakvu Lunar sviraju.

Lunar su pametan band koji s lakoćom integrira pravocrtnu ritam sekciju i isprepletene gitare. Tu se ne žuri i odlazi u rasviravanje bez potrebe, već razmišlja i pedantno dozira. Na ovom se albumu možete uhvatiti zaista za mnogo stvari. Već spomenutu "Pizza Song" gost Vlado delikatnim vokalom diže do sazviježđa koja svojim "kozmo" štihom band inače toliko priziva, a moji osobni favoriti "Radio Free Interference" i "My Moon" su impresivna i pedantna sinteza "epike i lirike". "Retard Numerique" pak nosi uvjerljiv iskaz gotovo bolećive melankolije, a ugođajem joj je srodna i "Alpa", krasan i razgovijetan komad ranjivog pop transa.

Usporedbe s nekim stranim imenima koje se šiju uz ovaj band nemaju previše smisla niti za njima ima neke potrebe. Lunar imaju svoju shemu i dišu u svojoj, autonomnoj sferi. Istina, nemaju zaleđe u prestižnim američkim i engleskim časopisima i agencijama, ali su sjajan band koji je snimio odličan, pravi turbo album. Nema greške.

ivan mučnjak jr. 17.12.2004.

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RADIO ŠTUDENT | www.radiostudent.si | written in Slovenian

Ko se je pred dobrimi desetimi leti v tisku prvič pojavil sedaj že kar precej izrabljen izraz, znan kot post-rock, se je verjetno zelo redkim posameznikom posvetilo, da bo ta besedna zveza, ki jo je skoval Simon Reynolds, prav kmalu zaživela tudi na Hrvaškem. Skupina Lunar, ustanovljena leta 1998, je eden od močnejših dokazov, da ima izraz "hrvaški post-rock" dejansko oporo v resničnosti ter da se mu prihodnost kar prijazno smeje. Album There Is No 1, njihov prvenec iz leta 2000, je požel precej pozitivnih kritik in bil logičen povod za močno koncertno aktivnost skupine. Če vemo, da je prvi album izšel prvi hrvaški založbi Carnival Tunes ter prvi tovariški belgijski založbi Delboy Records, ne preseneča, da zasedbo Lunar poznajo tudi na nizozemskih, belgijskih, avstrijskih, nemških, italijanskih ter seveda na ex-jugoslovanskih odrih. Izid drugega albuma, naslovljenega First And Last Lost, je bil načrtovan za isti založbi, a se je z Lunar poigrala usoda: celotni računalniški sistem, na katerem so bile shranjene datoteke s svežimi glasbenimi snovanji, se je namreč sesul, podatki pa so posledično nepovratno izgubljeni.

Starševstvo nad njihovim tretjim studijskim albumom, naslovljenim Turbo, je sedaj prevzela nova slovenska založba Moonlee Records. Njeni zaščitenci so zaenkrat omenjeni Lunar ter slovenskem občinstvu precej znana emo-hardcore skupina Analena. Skupini sta tudi drugače povezani, saj si obe delita tudi kitarista Mija. Ostali člani postave Lunar so Davor, Bojan in Nixa, ki z bobni, basom in dvema električnima kitarama tvorijo klasično post-rockovsko instrumentalno osnovo.

Album Turbo je logično nadaljevanje prvenca There Is No 1, čeprav bi nam uvodni komad dal misliti, da se bodo Lunar tokrat odpravili v bolj ambientalne vode. Že naslednja skladba, naslovljena Pizza Song, je dokaz, da uvod ni bil reprezentativen za zvok celotnega albuma. Gre namreč za klišejski in nekoliko bolj rockovsko obarvan post-rock komad, ki skupaj z zaključnim komadom tvori nepotrebna priveska, delno tudi zaradi nekako amorfnega vokala, kateremu bi se v prihodnje morda bilo bolje izogniti.

Zasedbi Lunar je zagotovo uspelo ohraniti prepoznavnost zvoka, s tem, da je na novem albumu nekoliko več elektronskih posredovanj. Klasični post-rock vzorci, kot so številna ponavljanja kitarskih fraz ter risanja otožnih zvočnih pokrajin, ki se skoraj obvezno zaključujejo z intenzivnejšim igranjem ter gostejšo zvočno kuliso, so po vsej verjetnosti nastali kot rezultat konzumiranja Mogwai, Do Make Say Think ali pa skupine Explosions In The Sky.

Turbo je izjemno piten, poslušljiv in nekako "neškodoželjen" album, prežet s sladko melanholijo, ki kot svila obvija note Lunar. Fantje so z novim albumom še enkrat dokazali, da definitivno niso provincialni post-rock "wannabes" ter da so kljub občasni predvidljivosti vredni poslušanja, njihova vloga pa dobi na teži že zaradi samega dejstva, da so eni redkih predstavnikov "pravovernega" post-rocka v našem prostoru.

V naslednjih minutah boste poslušali celoten album, z izjemo zadnjega komada. Komadi z morda nekoliko zavajajočimi naslovi v razmerju do razpoloženja albuma se bodo zvrstili v naslednjem zaporedju: Il Grabador Grande, Pizza Song, Dancefloor Žgaba, Belka I Strelka, Radio Free Interference , My Moon , Alpa , Retard Numerique , Davorova Grana , Tgemolo in Bee-Bop.

Spremno besedilo je spisala Jasna Črnjarić.

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ADDICTED TO NOTHING | www.atnzine.org | written in Slovenian

Evo rumenega gospoda z trenutno zadnjo izdajo do datuma. v bistvu MoonLee nadaljuje tradicijo izdajanja albumov, ki so vizualno bolj brezveze, glasbeno pa super.

Lunar sploh niso novinci, pred Turbom so izdali še en CD in, če naredim malo primerjave lahko rečem, da so kar napredovali, čeprav so bili že prej precej soliden band. Ko poslušam prvo pesem, Il Grabador Grande, ostanem kar brez besed, kajti to je postrock v vsem svojem blišču in točno tak kot ga imam rad. V nadaljevanju stil precej niha tako, da plate ne morem označiti za enolično niti ne morem reči, da so Lunar samo še ena kopija Mogwai, čeprav tudi če bi bili, se najbrš nebi pritoževal, so pa seveda ljudje, ki jim tak stil že precej najeda. Ravno prava zmes vsega pomalo in ne boste verjeli, na vsake toliko nek tip tudi malce zapoje v mikrofon, čeprav premalo, da bi bila v vitku objavljena tudi besedila. Vse skupaj je prav cool za take hladne dni, ko ostaneš doma, se zaviješ v šal za zaljubljene in poslušaš plato od začetka do konca. Obvezno za vse romantike tam zunaj.

No ovitek in vizualije niso ravno najmočnejša stran CDja, vendar me to v tem primeru bolj malo briga. Rdeča zvezda zvezda na modrem zidu deluje precej pankersko in najbrš so taka tudi nagnenja članov benda.

Še ena reč, ki jo bom najbrš poslušal bolj pozimi poleti pa sploh ne. Kdor pogreša post rock bande v naši bližini, mu bodo Lunar zagotovo zlezli v srce, pa tudi za tiste, ki bi radi slišali kaj bolj originalnega. Skratka, če ste ljubitelj bolj mirne in nenasilne glasbe mislim, da bi bila škoda, da vam tale plošček uide.

OCENA: 4/5

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MUZIKA | www.muzika.hr | written in Croatian

Soundtrack For The Solar Eclipse

Nakon početnog skepticizma u stilu još jedan bend iz neafirmirane glazbene kuće i ovaj je album našao svoje mjesto najprije u autu, a s vremenom se preselio i u kućnu slušaonicu. I ugodno iznenadio.

Priča ide otprilike ovako: nakon što su napustili Gone Bald, Bojan (bubnjevi) i Nixa (bass) kreću dalje. Lunar je nastao '98., a prije no što su se skrasili s Bojanom i Nixom, Davor i Mijo (gitara) imali su nekoliko prethodnika (Franjo, Mexo, Sven, Saša). U tom su periodu nastala dva albuma "There Is No 1" i "First And Last Lost". Treći, i prvi za Moonlee Records, "Turbo", nastao je nakon razočarnja benda digitalnom tehnologijom i povratku dobroj staroj analogiji.

"Turbo" je uglavnom instrumentalni album i vokal mu u stvari i nije previše potreban. Iako sam nakon početnih par taktova u autu mislio kako disk preskače, brzo sam uhvatio ritam i shvatio da je ovo jedan lagani, ali dinamičan album isprepleten veselim ritmovima i rifovima gitara. Svaka je pjesma blagog i melankoličnog početka koji kasnije prerasta u pravi, odrasli zvuk gitara i bubnja. Kako i sami kažu to je misteriozno putovanje u svemir popračeno ugodnim povratkom na Zemlju. I stvarno album vas od prvih taktova vodi na jedno zanimljivo putovanje koje prekida samo završna stvar s albuma koja pomalo odskače i ostavlja dojam nekakvog nastavka u smislu: 'see you next time'. Teško je i u potpunosti opisati ovakav uradak jer je zanimljiv, a i nekako se brzo vežete za takav prijateljski zvuk i nevin pristup muzičkom stvaralaštvu.

U globalu jako pozitivan dojam nakon što se album vrtio i više nego u prosjeku preslušavam novitete. To je ne samo znakovito nego i govori da uz malo više komercijalizacije ovakvih bendova i nove izdavačke kuće možda uhvatimo koju stvar i na radio postajama. Čista petica i za Moonlee records i za Lunar koji je pokazao kako se pune rupe i na domaćoj i na stranoj sceni. Nema puno ovakvih bendova, a još je manje onih koji ovako kvalitetno obavljaju posao.

Recenzirao: Tomislav Ivanetić

ocjena: 5

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TERAPIJA | www.terapija.net | written in Croatian

Na kraju uvodne pjesme albuma, negdje u pozadini se čuje muški glas koji kaže: "Evo, vratili smo se, i... Dobro je." Ja samo odgovaram "Pa, gdje ste tako dugo? Dobrodošli nazad!"

UKRATKO: Izraz post-rock je upotrebom već toliko izlizan da ga neću spomenuti. Kao ni Mogwai. Uostalom, predstavljati jedan od najboljih domaćih alter bendova, mislim da ni ne treba. Vjerojatno ste ih čuli. Trebali ste.

UDUŽE: Pričati o usporedbama s drugim svjetskim bendovima slična glazbena usmjerenja, ne želim iz dva razloga. Prvo, jer mi se čini da Lunar više nije bend koji treba posebno predstavljati što zbog hvaljena prvijenca "There is No. 1", što zbog njihove jake koncertne aktivnosti kojoj su vam dali priliku da ih vidite i uživo. Drugo, još važnije, jer njihova glazba spada u onu vrstu umjetnosti koja u svakom čovjeku budi drugačije značenje. Projicira mentalne slike, rekao bih. A rašlanjivati takvu glazbu na muzičke elemente nema nikakva smisla jer je u ovom slučaju cjelina puno, puno više.

Slično vrijedi i za faktografske podatke jer je Glazba u apsulutnom prvom planu. No, iz zahvale prema autorima iste, par crtica:
* Lunar su Bojan, Nixa, Davor i Mijo
* postoje od 1998. g.
* 2000.-te izdaju spomenuti "There is No. 1" za Carnival / Delboy Records
* naredni album "First And Last Lost" je nepovratno izgubljen zbog digitalnih poteškoća
* "Turbom" se vraćaju analognom načinu rada, te dodao bi, u velikom stilu natrag na diskografsku scenu

Što se samog stila "Turba" tiče, to je onaj voljeni i prepoznatljivi Lunar. Prepoznatljivost se gubi jedino u dvije stvari - "Pizza song" donosi i vokale (iako to tehnički nije novo jer je i prvijenac imao vokalnu "Vat Iz"), na momente Placebo alike, a "Bee-bop" kao odjavna stvar na albumu, je opičeni komad, pa, svemirskog bee-bopa! Kao što njihov press materijal slikovito ističe, "Turbo is a sound of wandering through nebula or a soundtrack for the solar eclipse. Turbo is a mysterious space travel followed by a pleasant return to Earth. However, it may be something completely differnet."

Obzirom da mi je "There is No. 1" glazbeno obilježio jedno razdoblje moga života i samim time su mi Lunari, a da oni to nisu ni znali, postali Jako Dobri Prijatelji, možda je i ocjena ovog albuma previše subjektivna. Naime, već vidim da će mi ako ne album, a onda barem neke pjesme pružati glazbenu podlogu za mentalna (i/ili fizička) putovanja u ovim hladnim mjesecima. Ali ne vjerujte meni, provjerite sami uskoro - službeni datum izlaska albuma je 22/11/2004. Kao teaser do onda, skinite 2 mp3ice i prepustite se Turbu... Lunar su dokaz kako instrumentalna glazba često može biti puno puno osjećajnija od one vokalne. I za to im, između ostalog, hvala.

ocjena albuma [1-10]: 9

sale // 14/11/2004

PS: Ponekad, a posebno u ovakvim trenutcima, mi je žao što nisam redatelj filmova. Jer bi Lunar zvao odmah da mi prepuste par stvari za film jer VEĆ VIDIM kako bi to genijalno funkcioniralo... Ali nadam se da će ih netko pametan zapaziti već. Čak vjerujem u to...