Torchbearers for the rich tradition of inventive and groundbreaking guitar-based pop from the American midwest, Oklahoma City-based indie rockers THE LUNAR LAUGH were in a class of their own. Rightly considered part of a newly emerging generation in the genre since their self-released 2015 debut Apollo, recorded in their original duo configuration of singer/songwriters Connor Anderson and Jared Lekites. THE LUNAR LAUGH intertwined their modern pop and rock song structures with hooks heavily under the influence of power pop masterworks of the 60s and 70s. With the 2017 addition of fellow singer/songwriter Campbell Young into the fold, the band became a true collaboration of the kind not often heard on the pop scene, with their material growing ever more sophisticated and mature without losing the buoyant melodic charge at its core with three further albums (2019's Goodnight Noises Everywhere, 2021's Nighthawks!, and 2023's In The Black).