Album Notes

"Lunarland is a bit of a discovery.
The songs here are built around gorgeous melodies, a rhapsodic melancholy, and a sense of love and childhood innocence lost. This is the sort of territory Steven Wilson touched on in mid-period Porcupine Tree (before the band moved on to more overt metal influences), but taken further into a lusher and more heartbreaking landscape, cold with deep frost and warm with remembered summers.
There are no solos, over-emoted vocals or huge string arrangements; much of the record is quite sparse, but every note creates huge emotional impact. An almost unbearable nostalgia (in the true sense of the word - pain for home, or a remembered place) informs tracks like 'Waking to Find Snow' and 'Miss Remarkable'. If The Blue Nile, The Comsat Angels or Mark Hollis affect you deeply, expect to be profoundly moved by this record."

"Beautiful melodies held aloft to catch the last light of the day."

The music of Lunarland evokes frosty nights under star filled skies, rainy streets, landscape and open skies, and love, loss and longing.

These home recordings effortlessly weave patterns of melody and lyric around a majestic heart. Lunarland make pop gems for the melancholy soul.

'Satellites' contains a selection of songs recorded by Lunarland (Andy Cocker) between 1995 and 2008 in small home studios from various locations in Yorkshire, England.

Influenced by/similar: Talk Talk, The Blue Nile, The Comsat Angels, Coldplay, Codeine, The Chameleons, Labradford, Hood, The Declining Winter, Stina Nordenstam, Boards of Canada.