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Last year, L.S. Dunes: vocalist Anthony Green, guitarist Frank Iero, bassist Tim Payne, guitarist Travis Stever, and drummer Tucker Rule released their debut album, Past Lives a boundary pushing synthesis of post-hardcore and punk that became one of 2022’s most acclaimed hard rock albums. To celebrate Past Lives’ first anniversary, L.S. Dunes release Lost Songs: Lines and Shapes, via Fantasy Records. Raw and radically revealing, Lost Songs: Lines and Shapes features early, stripped-down versions of all Past Lives’ 11 tracks. Listening to these songs in their hyper-intense, original form provides a new, completely fresh view into Past Lives, while the uninitiated will appreciate it for what it is, a sterling artistic statement in its own right. Lost Songs: Lines and Shapes was produced by L.S. Dunes and recorded separately across various bedrooms and garages during the pandemic. The arrangements, musical flourishes, and vocals have a looser feel and often contrast wildly from its successor, giving many of these tracks a different outlook and meaning altogether. Three of the tracks are pure instrumentals including the psyche-rock workout “Blender,” the grandiose and explosive “Bombsquad,” and the dramatic, prog-rocker “Grifter.” Similarly, the initial construction of “Grey Veins,” “2022,” “Past Lives,” and “Antibodies,” highlight the band’s ultra-musicianship as the unvarnished sonics jump out and grab the listener by the throat.