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ASH LUNE
shares acoustic
version of debut single
‘PANIC AT THE PARTY’

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Image Credit: Jamie Heath

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“Poignant piano and string instrumentals give way to the delicate, lofty vocals of Ash Lune, a newcomer who is making an incredibly strong start to her career.” – NOTION

“A heartstring-pulling introduction about social anxiety, her delicate vocals over the soaring backing mirror the kind of magic Taylor Swift often conjures in her songwriting.” – THIS IS DIY

“Such a gorgeous introduction to Ash Lune’s work – this one feels as though it wouldn’t cause a ripple on water it’s that light and delicate.” – DAVE RUBY HOWE, TRIPLE J

“It is a remarkable debut and marks Lune out as a new talent to keep a very close watch on.” – WOMEN IN POP

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Today, rising star Ash Lune has shared a very special acoustic version of her debut single ‘Panic at the Party’.  The Mumbai born, Brisbane based artist’s debut single,  produced and co-written with Tom Eggert (Sloane Petterson, Vancouver Sleep Clinic) marks the arrival of a singular talent and this acoustic version showcases her “hypnotic voice and dreamy lyrics” (Tone Deaf).

Ash described the new acoustic version,  “I had a really great time stripping back the song to its roots. I also spent the night before changing the notes of the composition. I made it darker because it sounded even more honest that way.” The acoustic version features the addition of string musicians Kathryn McKee and Tabea Sitte and was recorded by Marley Lüske. The video was filmed at Alchemix studio in Brisbane by Tex Keane-Cullen.

‘Panic At The Party’ hearkens back to an era of classic balladry, with cinematic strings and gentle, portentous piano underscoring Lune’s deeply relatable tale of emotional disconnect. Ash says the single “is really about social anxiety. You’d think “Well if you don’t like parties, don’t go parties”. I love parties because I don’t like being alone, so that makes me social. However, I hate parties because I get anxious about every single thing I say or do in a social scenario. There’s always at least one moment during a party when I’ll look around and realise that if the lights were on we’d all look like idiots intoxicating ourselves into a temporary bubble. In that moment the weight of the world comes back, the bubbles breaks, and everything goes south.”    

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Ash Lune is an old soul. With her serene, verdant, piano-led pop songs, the burgeoning star wants to take listeners back to a simpler time of being, an era of plaintive love songs and aching hearts, of deftly written paeans to heartbreak and classicist, deeply-felt balladry. Hearkening back to the easy song craft of indie icons like Ben Gibbard as well as the evocative timelessness of contemporaries like Lana Del Rey and Lorde, Lune is the perceptive new voice of an anxious generation in need of calm. “I want to be a time machine,” she says, “I want to take people back to the early-2000s, the era of some of the most beautiful love songs ever written.” 

Lune has always known she was put on this earth to sing beautiful, diaphanous love songs. Born in Mumbai, India, musicality is in the 23-year-old’s veins. Every member of her family can play an instrument and sing perfectly on key, and her older brother taught her to sing from the moment she could make a noise. As she grew up, Lune became an avid listener, a quiet student of the modern classics she and her brother would scour the internet for in the early-2000s — artists like Two Door Cinema Club, Avril Lavigne, Iron & Wine, and Bon Iver, whose variety and artistic integrity helped Lune develop her own sense of style and passion. Where some artists preemptively seek centre stage, Lune always waited and listened, quietly building her own artistry through observing perfect melodies and brilliant, poetic lyricism. 

Although deeply contemporary, there’s a timelessness to Lune’s music that belies its creator’s tender years. Across her music, Lune excavates the deepest recesses of her heart in order to create music that speaks to everyone, across seas, across cultures, and across all walks of life. “This is for anyone who’s going through a hard time,” Lune says, “Or going through a breakup, or who doesn’t know what they’re doing with their lives.”  In other words: this is music for everyone.

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AMNPLIFY – SR