Loma - Half Silences

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Loma - “Half Silences” from the 2020 album Don’t Shy Away on Sub Pop.

Loma never anticipated going this far. The project began as an impromptu collaboration with songwriter Emily Cross, recording engineer Dan Duszynski, and Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg, converging to record their 2018 self-titled debut. After releasing the record and touring, each member intended to go back to their own projects. However, it only took a few months away from each other before they realized they wanted to keep Loma going. The trio holed up in Duszynski’s Texas home studio to record their sophomore effort, ‘Don’t Shy Away,’ which was recently released on Sub Pop.

“Don’t Shy Away” vindicates the bands decision to keep moving forward. The brooding, slow dirge finds the band at their best. Cross’ voice wields a stark intensity, looming over the restrained but tense instrumentation. It’s a marvel of studio wizardry, with static and eerie distortion and synth drones crashing over the steady pulse of drums and bass. It’s Loma at their best, pushing each other into bold, luminous new sonic territories.

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0:00.0	The Oh, uh, When I remove myself from the picture, when I reduce myself I see you say
0:49.3	And I couldn't find my way out of this feeling.
0:58.7	A generate light, generate heat,
1:04.0	breathing.
1:05.0	G
1:06.0	I forgive myself, forget my life,
1:10.0	forget my life,
1:12.0	remember believing.
1:15.0	And never get used to your time. When I believe my, I never made contact.
1:37.0	When you betray yourself trying. You're only here. And when I see reason
1:55.0	reason how can you move so well
2:02.0	spinning inside yourself
2:05.0	and not understand me now.
2:08.0	Generate life,
2:11.0	generate life, generate feeling.
2:25.0	so many words under my tongue.
2:29.0	So many have silence cells. Yes, Tell you, tell you're for you. I'm trying to be glad,
3:04.7	trying to make me, generate feeling.
3:08.8	So many words under my tongue.
3:15.0	So many heads.
3:18.0	Silent signs. and says. Oh, yeah. you're

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