The Lunar Orbit Zach Sizemore

This week, The Lunar Orbit brings you new releases from May! As always, plenty of fantastic post-rock releases to feature this month, more than I can fit in one show, but I did my best. Tune in to hear new music from bands all the bands listed below! Also, happy summer solstice month. It's finally that time of the year, when the earth's tilt toward the sun is at a maximum.

Playlist:

Lo, the Loyal Conscripts "Carrot Sell" from Carrot Sell (GO! Cut) - Single
Wess Meets West "Transition" from Transition - Single
And So I Watch You from Afar "Do Mór" from Do Mór - Single
The Mantra Discord "Reach" from The Lost Widow - EP
MONO "Run On" from Oath
Mountainscape "Iridescent" from Iridescent - Single
Unwed Sailor "Blue Tangier" from Underwater Over There
Kannon "Blue Nile" from Blue Nile - Single
Thought Trials "Decades" from This Has Always Been With You
Treebeard "Incognita" from Incognita - Single
Kalouv "Avec...?" from Sky Swimmer
Deeparshi Roy "In Life's Grand Theater" from In Life's Grand Theater - Single
Derive in Me "The Epilogue of Cassandra's Prophecy" from The Epilogue of Cassandra's Prophecy - Single
For What You Burn "Drifting Underwater (Revisited)" from Drifting Underwater (Revisited) - Single
Musala Nan Eilan "Asunti Na Coperna" from Glossolalia - EP
Passage "Oasis" from Crystal

This week! I'm here to bring you another edition of Cosmic Overtures! 🚀 🪐 Long, extended, epic piece of post and prog rock. Like Tchaikovsky himself donned a space suit and blasted his symphonies as he flew to Mars.

Playlist:

SPRINTS "Cathedral" from Letter To Self
Clouds Taste Satanic "Collision" from 79 A.E.
Yes "The Gates of Delirium" from Relayer (Deluxe Edition)
Sleeping Pandora "Santenna" from Yellow Sphere
Whale Fall "El Caracol" from It Will Become Itself
Karkara "Monoliths" from All Is Dust

This week on The Lunar Orbit, a little bit of everything! Bringing you new releases from a few bands that we couldn’t squeeze into the April shows, along with a grab bag of great post, ambient, and instrumental rock. This one goes loud, quiet, exciting, mellow, and everything in between!

Playlist:

LITE "Lower Mantle" from STRATA (Bonus Ver.)
Glories "No Sky Can Blind You Now" from No Sky Can Blind You Now - Single
Dan Caine "Consolations" from Signals
Almøst Silent "Drawn In the Sand" from Gone With the Sun
Moes "If They Could Talk" from Smiles & Scars
Followed By Ghosts "Sleep On It" from Still, Here
Spacecraft "Moonrise over Seattle" from Drifting in Peace - EP
Release The Long Ships "The Heart of the Mountain" from Wilderness
When Colors Are Fading "A Fleeting Feeling" from Past Summers Notes
Zombie Western "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" from Endless Sea
Chikoi The Maid "Velocity" from Velocity
Around the World In 80 Days "Ghost of the Future" from Dissonance
Land of Fires "Komorebi" from Vsbydr - Single
Homem em Catarse "Hotel Saturnyo" from Sem Palavras, Cem Palavras
A Broken Sail "Ships In the Night" from Infinite Sets: 1 - Single
Often the Thinker "Quarter or Half of Greater or Less" from Better Part of Vice

This week! 🚀 I’m bringing you part two of our Fund Drive special! A second week of all new post-rock, ambient, and instrumental goodness to celebrate all the awesome work that WRIR has been up to. Of course, you’ll get a chance to be a part of that too when you donate!

If you would like to donate to the station it seriously would mean the world, to do so please visit wrir.org/donate.

Playlist:

Salt+ "Not It" from Not It - Single
Mothership Mercury "Messenger" from Mothership Mercury
What Aleph Said "Astral" from Aulasy
Myriad Drone "Valediction" from Valediction - Single
goader "The Divine Worm" from Older Gods
Skyggekat "ShadowCat" from At the End of the Rope EP
The Sun Burns Bright "The Wave That Took Us Under" from Our Eyes Were Drawn To the Inevitable
sleepmakeswaves "All Hail Skull" from It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
Movement of Static "Perception" from Projections
Ranges "X." from X. - Single
Thought Trials "Oligo" from Oligo - Single
Winters Lane "December" from Trails
Maybeshewill "October" from October - Single
Maneframe "Fading Metropolis" from Echoes of the Beginning
James Dorsett "Hope" from Defeat/Hope - Single

This week I’m pulling out all the stops for WRIR's 2024 Spring Fund Drive! This episode will be the first of two shows featuring new music from the past couple months, including a fantastic mix of post-rock, ambient, and a little electronica. Plus of course, you’ll get to hear all about the awesome work WRIR has been up to, and all the great benefits of donating!

If you would like to donate to the station it seriously would mean the world, to do so please visit wrir.org/donate.

Playlist:

Tottomori "Sunshine and Rotting Wood" from Dream Merchant
MONO "Oath" from Oath (Triptych) - EP
fade into obscurity "let them float" from the grief aftermath
O'Bear "The Shore" from The Shore - EP
Sidus "Seismic Wave (Live in Athens, 10.12.2023)" from Seismic Wave (Live in Athens, 10.12.2023) - Single
So Far As I Know "When Stars Collide And Fall Upon Us" from Awe
Halfway Line "A Mountain Passage" from Halfway Line - Single
Cosmic Call "Good Days Will Come (feat. Hereafter & Parker)" from There Is Always Hope
Tars "To the Stars" from Per Aspera
Overhead, The Albatross "Your Last Breath" from Your Last Breath - Single
Solars "A Hill to Die On" from A Hill to Die On - Single
Mason van Kraayenburg "Draco (feat. Coastlands)" from Draco (feat. Coastlands) - Single
From Beyond These Walls "Distant Light" from The Dawn
Helsinki Horizon "Cellar Door" from Sirens
Atonalita "From The Furthest Sky" from From The Furthest Sky - Single

Tonight is something like a heavy dream-wavy show. Kind of ethereal sounding, mixed with a lot of distortion. It’s an interesting vibe, and a ton of great music with bands like @east_thelane @astronomiesband @chanisswimming @sleepmakeswavesaus @thesunburnsbright and many more!

Playlist:

BLEED You Fucking Skies "Northstorm" from Prototype
Chan Is Swimming "Operation Caroline" from Chan Is Swimming
Deeparshi Roy "In Nothingness" from In Nothingness - Single
Nava Calma "A Last Hurrah for the Bedlam" from A Last Hurrah for the Bedlam - Single
Glories "Chosen Forms" from Chosen Forms - Single
sleepmakeswaves "All Hail Skull" from It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
East, the Lane "Potsdam" from Close Your Eyes! Every Sun Sets to Rise Again
Tin-Ear "Untitled" from Cadastral Maps
Terrestrial "Sunrise" from Landscapes - EP
The Sun Burns Bright "Perpetual" from Our Eyes Were Drawn To the Inevitable
The End of the Ocean "On Floating" from In Excelsis - EP
Legendary Skies "Red Tails" from Navigation
The Low Blow "Angels" from The City of Glowing Metal
Anti Quant "There In the Beams of the Moon" from EP 1 - EP
Seeress "Empathy" from Empathy - Single
bottomshelf "Clot" from Bright Days - EP
herveil "Pale Light" from Swirl - EP
Shirley & The Pyramids "High and Low" from Maid of Time
Murmurer "Destierro" from Pristinus - EP
Astronomies "After I Fall Asleep" from After I Fall Asleep - Single