Through Shaded Woods

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Through Shaded Woods
Lunatic Soul Through Shaded Woods Album Cover.png
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 13, 2020
RecordedApril 2019 – August 2020
StudioSerakos Studio, Warsaw, Poland
Genre Progressive rock, progressive folk
Length39:50
Producer
Lunatic Soul chronology
Under the Fragmented Sky
(2018)
Through Shaded Woods
(2020)
Singles from Through Shaded Woods
  1. "The Passage"
    Released: September 24, 2020

Through Shaded Woods is the seventh studio album by Lunatic Soul, the side project of Riverside bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Mariusz Duda, released on November 13, 2020. The album was described by Duda as 'more folky' than previous releases, [1] with more influence from Scandinavian and Slavic folk [2] [3] and fewer electronic elements. [4] In Poland, Through Shaded Woods peaked at number 5 on OLiS (Oficjalna Lista Sprzedaży, Official Sales Chart). [5]

Contents

Track listing

Through Shaded Woods
No.TitleLength
1."Navvie"4:03
2."The Passage"8:57
3."Through Shaded Woods"5:51
4."Oblivion"5:03
5."Summoning Dance"9:52
6."The Fountain"6:04
Total length:39:50
Bonus Disc
No.TitleLength
7."Vyraj"5:32
8."Hylophobia"3:20
9."Transition II"27:45
Total length:76:27

Personnel

Credits adapted from the Lunatic Soul website. [6]

Lunatic Soul

Production

Design

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