Album Of The Day: Shimmer by Luna Halo

Album Art of Luna Halo's Shimmer album - It's really hard to tell what is pictured here. It's a blue-colored photo of what looks to be a series of doors or windows, but warped and flipped via a series of mirriors or something. Also, some parts that don't look like that just look like random lines and shapes. Above this photo or illustration is layered in the top left some semi-transparent Chinese characters. In the middle, in a yellow sans-serif font is the band name in all caps without the horizontal line on the 'A' letters. In smaller text next to it is the album title in brackets. Both have a large motion blur above them, such that it looks like maybe the letters are falling from above.

Released on this day 25 years ago, this is the debut album by rock band Luna Halo. Nathan Barlowe's ethereal vocals mix really well with Jonny MacIntosh's spaced-out guitars, and the two wrote great lyrics that touch on the divine as well as personal, down-to-earth relationships. All 12 tracks are solid songs, in my opinion. This was an album I loved immediately and listened to often for years after it came out, and I still listen to it somewhat regularly. Nathan Barlowe continues to create music with a band called Luna Halo, but none of the other band members from this album remain and their sound has changed a bit over the years.

Release Year: 2000
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