Módulo Lunar
Photo Cred 📸: @mattheusantonelli
What a feeling it is, to hear something that seems to wrap it’s grip tightly in your chest. The coiling firmness of something expansive unfolding, it seems to wrap around you and swallow everything else up. That kind of intensity emanates from each track on “Equinócio”, the most recent EP from Brazilian post-hardcore outfit Módulo Lunar. Pulling equal parts from 90s indie emo and contemporary post-hardcore, the trio’s latest release is one of melodic richness, punctuated with stark, seize-in-your-chest emotional honesty.
“Último Dia De Verão” (The Last Day of Summer) rings with the finality of its title, slowly ramping from a somber yet heavy Dinosaur Jr. meets Unwound opening segment, wailing riffs and cuss-laden drumming accompanying the aching march of spoken word, before erupting into a roared shout as the track picks up at a clip and melds into a beautiful swirl of instrumentation, before cutting sharply into an angular rhythmic outro.
As we begin “Vinte Vinte” (Twenty Twenty), a soaring and warbling riff is warped and wound around crisp yet dense bass lines as the saccharine splash of cymbals splinters amongst sparsely written but passionately roared lyrics. A track that seems to earnestly be asking for survival, a simple wish to exist opined through the repeated lines and at the moment / wanted to live with minimal outlay / save on gestures / in the words / in thoughts / float.
The third and final track “Movimento Perpétuo” (Perpetual Motion), with its looping guitar lines and drumming synchronicities seems to leave and come back, with shuddering melodies and haunting riffs. The song itself sounds like a trap, an endless loop that can’t be navigated, as scaling fretwork and drums collide against melancholic bass to circle and circle as they slowly fade out to silence.
Módulo Lunar are a recent discovery for me and certainly a pleasant surprise. Their sparse but punchy lyricism rings especially hard in an era saturated by heavy handed captioning and 3 minute infotainment. Their exasperation and sort of surrender to the times is one that can easily be sympathized with, and certainly felt throughout this EP. We thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to what the band has in store for us next.
Check out their Bandcamp here: Módulo Lunar
Writer : @letsgetpivotal
Editor : @just_reidz
02/06/23
