La Lune – Everything is an eternal circle and it repeats and repeats itself
Release Date: May 8, 2025
Origin: Vancouver, Canada
Genre: Indie rock, nu-gaze, shoegaze
With Everything is an eternal circle and it repeats and repeats itself, Vancouver-based band La Lune deliver a profoundly introspective and sonically immersive album that confronts the emotional weight of trauma through layered textures, meditative pacing, and melodic intensity. Across eight emotionally charged tracks, the band offers a slow-burning, beautifully disoriented reflection on the looping nature of unresolved pain—what they call the “trauma vortex,” a term borrowed from therapy to describe the cycles that replay silently in the psyche.
Band Members & Credits
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Ethan Rebalkin – Writer, composer, producer, guitarist, vocalist
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Ben Lock – Writer, composer, producer, guitarist
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Olivia-Grace Wells – Writer, composer, producer, bassist, vocals
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Taylor Pawsey – Writer, composer, producer, drummer, guitarist
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Stuart McKillop – Engineering, mixing, mastering
Together, La Lune creates music that feels like both an echo and an exhale—a sound caught between collapse and clarity, fragility and force. Their collaborative process brings emotional depth and structural elegance to every track, unified by a shared sensitivity to sound and silence alike.
Sound & Aesthetic
The album blends reverb-soaked guitars, submerged vocals, and soft, looping rhythms that ebb and flow like the emotional states they mirror. There’s a distinct nu-gaze edge to the sound—drawing from the foundational haze of shoegaze, but with a more intimate, emotionally articulate core. The textures are thick but never overwhelming, allowing space for reflection, memory, and unresolved thought to breathe.
The aesthetic is beautifully restrained—equal parts heavy and weightless. Melodies are woven into layers of distortion and delay, building a sonic world that feels at once hypnotic and deeply human. The production invites you to sit with the discomfort, to dwell in the loop rather than break it.
Themes & Mood
At its heart, Everything is an eternal circle... is an exploration of trauma—how it lingers, mutates, and repeats. The album doesn’t attempt to resolve pain but to acknowledge it, to hold space for it in a world that often demands resolution too quickly. There’s a quiet bravery in how the songs return to emotional motifs, not unlike the patterns of thought that trauma leaves behind.
The mood is introspective, melancholic, and delicately raw. It invites stillness, internal movement, and, perhaps most importantly, understanding. It's a record that offers no easy answers, but a sense of resonance that feels healing in its own right.
Critical Response
Everything is an eternal circle and it repeats and repeats itself has been met with acclaim for its sonic maturity, emotional honesty, and immersive atmosphere. Critics have praised La Lune for their ability to translate complex psychological themes into sound without falling into cliché or overstatement. The album marks the band as one of the most emotionally intelligent and aesthetically compelling voices in the contemporary indie and shoegaze scenes.
