Vancouver shoegaze band La Lune has released their new single and music video “expressionless,” setting the tone for their upcoming EP everything is an eternal circle, and it repeats and repeats, out May 8, 2025, via Play Dead. The band, mentioned in our recent feature on Coma Of Eris, will celebrate with an EP release show at Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver on May 9.
Built around dense layers of blown-out guitars and pounding drums, “expressionless” finds La Lune refining their sound by pushing Ethan Rebalkin’s vocals closer to the front.
The shift adds a sharper emotional edge to a track centered on the unsettling cycles of depersonalization and derealization. As Rebalkin explains, “‘expressionless’ is a pretty direct retelling of my experience with depersonalization/derealization disorder — losing my sense of self, loathing the time wasted feeling sorry for myself about it, pulling myself back together but still feeling incomplete.”
The songwriting captures those spirals vividly. Rebalkin describes a recurring image that became central to the song’s pre-chorus: “When I first started experiencing the disorder, I would stare at my ceiling a lot. I’d sit in my depersonalization and really fixate on it. Anytime I would start to talk to someone, I’d imagine what my face looked like as I spoke, and always imagined me speaking blankly without any personality. That’s what inspired the ‘staring, I’m half asleep, teething on a blank expression,’ line.”
The lyrics underline that dissociation plainly: “Tracing patterns on my ceiling / reeling from a memory that’s already gone / haven’t felt real in a moment / make me wake up so I can be alright.”
Moments of self-awareness appear like brief flashes through the heavy atmosphere of the track, only to loop back into the same worn-out detachment. “Expressionless was written about the persistent feeling that you aren’t yourself and your surroundings aren’t what you think they are,” the band shares. “The detachment you turn to when nothing seems to make sense, and the guilt that follows when you finally bring yourself back together.”
The video, directed and edited by Nima Walker, carries that mood into a visual language, described by the band as “spooky.” Filmed with a stark, hypnotic style, it complements the themes of isolation and disconnection without overexplaining them.
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Following this release, La Lune recorded two more new songs with Colin Stewart at The Hive, suggesting that the momentum they built with their 2024 debut EP disparity is carrying forward with a stronger, more personal focus.
Everything is an eternal circle, and it repeats and repeats promises to dive deeper into those emotional terrains, reinforcing the idea that La Lune is less interested in surface-level catharsis and more committed to exploring the slow, grinding loops of personal experience.
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