Lunar Isles is the moniker of David Skimming, a Scottish multi-instrumentalist who produces hazy indie-pop with a DIY approach from his newfound home of Seoul, South Korea.
‘Over a long run of time, people do indeed change, often quite dramatically. Some take up new hobbies, others change their appearance — most are doing totally different things than they were a decade prior.
For Seoul-based independent recording artist David Skimming, who nowadays works under the moniker Lunar Isles, this would definitely be the scenario versus what he was doing back in Scotland 10 years ago. He was indeed making indie music even then with another band, but he was still near home in Glasgow and this first band was taking cues from the likes of Talking Heads, Foals and Radiohead for their sound.
Fast-forward a decade, and Skimming is now making some of the best guitar-centric dreamscapes out there from his adopted home base in Korea, taking cues from the likes of Khruangbin and Mac DeMarco with his new sound. But traces of the past can still be sensed, as whiffs of David Byrne and Thom Yorke can still be caught here and there.’ [The Korea Times]