In 2024, Nicholas Gay left a job in social work in Vancouver and moved to Toronto in order to reunite with his past band members from university, looking to revive Lockimara’s live presence after years of only writing and recording. The move forced him to finally commit fully to a career in music, and resulted in his 2025 debut album, A Vision Again. The striking 14-song collection was an ode to Gay’s longing to join the pantheon of his influences, which range from early obsessions like Elliott Smith, the Postal Service, and My Bloody Valentine–who compelled him to teach himself guitar and piano as a teenager, chasing their ability to make melancholy feel like relief–to later inspirations that include A.G. Cook, Spirit of the Beehive, and Imogen Heap.

A year later, he found himself moving again, this time to New York to pursue a master’s degree in music production, all as a long-term relationship came to an end. Amidst this migration and tumult, and using his continual commitment to music as a north star, Gay began to adopt new perspectives on life. The confidence and flexibility of his early twenties had been slowly fading, and he felt a deeper sense of humility and respect for his changing environments and communities. Only Sun, Only Moon emerged out of these feelings: fear, anger, desperation, and awe all felt closer than ever before, and he was compelled to explore that musically. Gay wrote and produced the album in its entirety, and performs nearly all the instrumentation himself.

With Only Sun, Only Moon, Lockimara further expands his sonic palette, finding his stride in fresh textures and increasingly unique production. After losing his footing due to relationship, job, and home changes, Gay transmuted his wide range of feelings into art that details an effort to find a sense of stability, and rediscover his voice in the process. The music and production on Only Sun, Only Moon work in tandem to conjure emotions and imagery that feel like a dream–vivid and surreal at the same time.

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