Through Shaded Woods

Through Shaded Woods is the seventh studio album by Lunatic Soul, the side project of Riverside bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Mariusz Duda, released on 13 November 2020. The album was described by Duda as 'more folky' than previous releases, with more influence from Scandinavian and Slavic folk and fewer electronic elements. In Poland, Through Shaded Woods peaked at number 5 on OLiS. Mariusz Duda composed all the songs and, for the first time in Lunatic Soul's history, played all the instruments on the album. On Through Shaded Woods Duda maintains the melancholy and darkness characteristic of his music, but this time he focuses also on "light and hope." There are less electronics on the album, which dominated earlier Lunatic Soul albums. The release is based on organic sounds of acoustic and electric guitars, bass and keyboard instruments. The songs contain the use of various sounds inscribed in folk - whispered choirs, pulsating rhythmic drums or delicate keyboards. Reviewers noted that Through Shaded Woods is the most positive album from Lunatic Soul. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)