Lunar & The Deception: "Life is Sacred"

Every relationship is a collision of invisible worlds. Two people meet, but what truly encounters each other are memories, fears, desires and the silent architectures of the inner self.

Within that fragile space, where intimacy can both heal and destroy, Lunar & The Deception build their sonic universe.

With their upcoming album The Somnambulist, anticipated by the single Your Monsters, the project dives into the darker territories of emotional experience. Their music inhabits a landscape where grandeur and fragility coexist: dreamlike atmospheres dissolve into moments of raw vulnerability, while mythic imagery and archetypal symbols echo beneath the surface of the sound.

At the center of this vision is vocalist and visual architect Britt Xyra Dusk, whose work moves fluidly between music, symbolism and storytelling. The band’s aesthetic draws from nocturnal moods, liminal states and ancient mythologies, transforming songs into spaces where personal emotion intersects with broader reflections on power, society and the uncertain direction of the present.

The band reflects on love as a collision of emotional universes, on the liminal space between dream and waking life, and on the strange sensation that contemporary society might be moving through history like a somnambulist: active, connected, yet not fully awake.

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“Your Monsters” suggests that when two people meet, they bring entire unseen worlds with them. Do you see relationships as spaces of discovery or as situations where we lose control over who we become?

I think a healthy relationship will open up a space for individuals to explore the shadow side of your emotions. Love isn't always pretty and beautiful, it can be destructive and rip your world apart but it should allow you the space to do the work, to feel deeply, question deeply, discover deeply. You’re right, it is two universes colliding and trying to find a middle ground and creating a space that is safe to explore this new territory. 

I love this quote From Kahlil Gibran: ‘The same emotional well that produces laughter has often been filled with tears. The deeper sorrow carves into you, the more joy you can contain: Pain shapes the soul to hold greater joy, much like a cup must be fired in a kiln to hold wine, or a lute must be hollowed with knives to produce music.

They are not rivals but partners: One can not exist without the other.’

The title implies that darkness is not only internal but relational.Can love amplify what is most dangerous in us, or does it simply illuminate what was already waiting beneath the surface?

Good question, I think both, it can reveal what was lurking beneath the surface and also amplify what was already there.

Your sound holds grandeur and fragility in constant tension without offering resolution. Is music, for you, a way to soothe emotional instability, or a space where both artist and listener are invited to inhabit it without escape?

Im really hoping my songs will take listeners on a journey and im really excited for people to listen to the album from start to finish, as a whole piece of work. I think its more of a reflection, a mirror of where we are at as a society.

No more Secrets, is about the downfall of 3000 years of patriarchy and corrupt politicians, Ezeru Kazpam is about the old sumerian curse of money. The Great Bison is about losing a loved one to the great divide, We Looked the Other Way is about climate change and unregulated consumption. Im hoping the music can soothe and also reflect, such is life, grandeur and instability, love and loss. My music is the place I go to make sense of everything and there really is a lot going on in the world right now!

Much of your work feels nocturnal, suspended between dream and waking life. Do you experience the unconscious as a refuge from reality, or as a threshold where hidden truths become impossible to ignore?

I absolutely adore liminal space, where light and dark meet, the unconcious or the not fully formed. Everything is created in the dark, the mud, the earth, the womb, the dark wet soil is the incubator from which life can spring.

Its fascinating, the suspended space is where the energy flickers and life or ideas get created. I guess it is a refuge from reality defintely, this in between state, place or time, a threshold of what was, and whats next. Its eerie, and sometimes unsettling but for me thats where the magic lies. Ireland – the country is brimming with magic amd liminal spaces, I do alot of writing there, you feel as if you are visited by liminal beings if you sit still long enough.

The album title The Somnambulist evokes movement without awareness. Do you sense that contemporary society is drifting in a similar state - active, connected, yet strangely asleep to its own direction?

Yes absolutely, it's feels like we are sleepwalking off a cliff, theres a Daryl Davis quote that says “a stupid person is someone who has all the facts and proper information, and still makes the wrong decision”. We are the most well informed yet stupid generation to ever have existed. 

Your visuals draw heavily on mythic and archetypal imagery.Are these symbols a way to transcend the present moment, or to reveal something ancient and enduring that modern life continually tries to silence?

Myths and archetypes always inspire me to see beauty in the mundane. It seems to reaffirm that - All life is sacred, work is sacred, art is sacred. I'm always having to catch myself by stopping and giving thanks for being alive in this body at this time, and all the opportunity we have at our fingertips. Its such an important time right now, as I really feel the walls of the old world are crumbling and we are here to rebuild something new and more in balance. Sometimes modern life – phones, supermarkets, fast fashion can pull us away from the natural beings that we are. The ancient stories are a reminder that there is another way, there has been another way before now.

They are the strings that connect me from the past to the present, the string (lifeline) that i can tie around myself while we navigate this dark and uncertain way for the building of a new world ahead.

If “Your Monsters” were not a song but a ritual, what kind of transformation, emotional, psychological, or even spiritual, would you hope it might initiate in those who experience it?

In the end Your Monsters is about abundance, about having a well of abundance of love inside yourself, ‘you've hurt me, but have it, I dont need it, I have more.’

You need it, take it, you need it more than me. Its realising there is a constant spring of love abundance. As humans we are master creators, there is always more, when you love fully with no need of reciprocity, it comes back to you.

Its an understanding of ebb and flow, its the seasons and I guess a surrender into the duality of everything – the winter and summer of our own hearts, the joy and sorrow, the pain and the bliss, the full spectrum.