Loma - How Will I Live Without a Body? - Transparent Smoke - VINYL LP

January 2023, Dorset. Snow is piled at the door, icy roads are closed, and Emily Cross is in a coffin. Not a setting typical for a rebirth. But for Loma, this is where they bring their band back from the brink. InchIt's like a demon enters the room, whenever we get togetherInch, writer, singer and instrumentalist Cross says of the struggle to bring new Loma music into the world. Following the of their 2020 second album Don't Shy Away, Loma's three members were cast around the globe and the band-not for the first time-entered a deep sleep. Multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Dan Duszynski remained in his studio in Don't Shy Away's central Texas heart, but Cross, a UK citizen, moved to Dorset, and writer and instrumentalist Jonathan Meiburg left the US for Germany to research a book. In the pandemic years, even being in the same room was impossible, and attempts to start a new record faltered. The following winter, in an attempt to salvage the record and the band, Cross suggested they regroup in the UK, in the tiny stone house-once a coffin-maker's workshop-where she works as an end-of-life doula. With minimal recording gear and few instruments, Loma turned two whitewashed rooms into a makeshift studio, using a padded coffin as a vocal booth. It was a turning point. They scrapped much of what they'd made, letting a new place set a new course. The one-lane roads, hedgerows and dark skies of Dorset gave the new songs an ineffable but unmistakable Englishness. The band used the ruin of a 12th-century chapel as a reverb chamber-surprising hillwalkers who peeked in to find them singing to no one-and the sounds of Cross's chilly workshop wormed their way into the recording a leaky pipe, a drummer's brushes on a metal lampshade, the voices left on an ancient answering machine. What emerged was How Will I Live Without A Body? a gorgeous, unique, and oddly comfortin

Black Vinyl. With a deep-rooted love for traditional music, Zach Top is poised to invigorate the country genre with his homage to classic sounds and authentic storytelling. Zach embodies the spirit of 90's country legends, shaped by his upbringing in Sunnyside, WA listening to classic country music while driving around his family's ranch tending to livestock. At the age of seven, he formed a band with his siblings which set the stage for his musical ambitions. Throughout his teenage years and early twenties, Zach honed his craft by playing in various bluegrass bands before moving to Nashville in 2021 where he has been steadily making his mark as an artist to watch. Zach just released two special holiday tracks and is set to join CMA Entertainer of the Year, Lainey Wilson's InchCountry's Cool AgainInch Tour this year.

On December 26th, 2018, Emily Cross received an excited email from a friend Brian Eno was talking about her band on BBC radio. InchAt first I didn't think it was real,Inch she admits. But then she heard a recording Eno was praising InchBlack WillowInch from Loma's self-titled debut, a song whose minimal groove and hypnotic refrain seem as much farewell as a manifesto I make my bed beside the road / I carry a diamond blade / I will not serve you. He said he'd had it on repeat. Don't Shy Away is shot through with revelations, both joyful (InchGiven a SignInch) and sober (the clear-eyed title track), and winds from moment to moment with confidence and humor. Like Loma's first effort, there's a tangible and sensuous feeling of place; insects sing in the trees, an ill-fitting door creaks in the wind.