View basket “Hips & Makers (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)” has been added to your basket. Don’t Shy Away Loma SKU: SP1366 Barcode: 0098787136616 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop Released Date: 23rd October 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info On December 26th, 2018, Emily Cross received an excited email from a friend: Brian Eno was talking about her band on BBC radio. “At first I didn’t think it was real,” she admits. But then she heard a recording: Eno was praising “Black Willow” from Loma’s self-titled debut. He said he’d had it on repeat. At the time, a second Loma album seemed unlikely. The band began as a serendipitous collaboration between Cross, the multi-talented musician and recording engineer Dan Duszynski, and Shearwater frontman Jonathan Meiburg, who wanted to play a supporting role after years at the microphone. They’d capped a grueling tour with a standout performance on a packed beach at Sub Pop’s SPF 30 festival, in which Cross leapt into the crowd, and then into the sea, while the band carried on from the stage—an emotional peak that also felt like a natural ending. “It was the biggest audience we’d ever had,” she says. “We thought, why not stop here?” Following the tour, Cross went to rural Mexico to work on visual art and a solo record, while Meiburg began a new Shearwater effort. But after a few months apart (and Eno’s encouraging words), the trio changed their minds and reconvened at Duszynski’s home in rural Texas, where they began to develop songs that would become Don’t Shy Away. Loma writes by consensus, and though Cross is always the singer, she, Duszynski and Meiburg often trade instruments. Meiburg compares their process to using an ouija board and says the songs revealed themselves slowly, over many months. “Each of us is a very strong flavor,” he says, “but in Loma, nobody wears the crown, so we have to trust each other—and we end up in places none of us would have gone on our own. I think we all wanted to experience that again.” The album that emerged is gently spectacular—a vivid work whose light touch belies its timely themes of solitude, impermanence, and finding light in deep darkness. Stuck / beneath / a rock, Cross begins, as if noticing her predicament for the first time. Then she adds: I begin to see / the beauty in it. A series of guests contributed to the absorbing soundscapes of Don’t Shy Away, including touring members Emily Lee (piano, violin) and Matt Schuessler (bass), Flock of Dimes/Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, and a surprisingly bass-heavy horn section. And then there’s Brian Eno. Loma invited him to participate in the mantra-like “Homing,” which concludes the album and sent him stems to interact with in any way he liked. He never spoke directly with the band, but his completed mix arrived via e-mail late one night, without warning, and they gathered to listen in the converted bedroom Duszynski uses as a control room. “I was a little worried,” says Cross. “What if we didn’t like it?” But it was all they’d hoped for: minimal but enveloping, friendly but enigmatic, as much Loma as Eno—a perfect ending to an album about finding a new home inside an old one. I am somewhere that you know, Cross sings, above a chorus of her bandmates’ blended voices. I am right behind your eyes. Artist Loma Genre Rock And Pop Label Sub Pop Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings I Fix My Gaze Ocotillo Half Silences Elliptical Days Given a Sign Thorn Breaking Waves Like a Stone Blue Rainbow Jenny Don't Shy Away Homing Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Loma and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Loma Loma (Loser Edition) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 13th February 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Loma Loma (Loser Edition) £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1214X Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Loma Loma Sub Pop | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th February 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Loma Loma £19.00 Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1214 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Only Ones, The Even Serpents Shine Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 11th August 2011 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Only Ones, The Even Serpents Shine £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP310 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th August 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Robert Wyatt Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard Rock And Pop | Domino | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 22nd November 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robert Wyatt Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: REWIGLP41 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Live Rock And Pop | Asthmatic Kitty Records | 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released 21st November 2017 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Live £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records SKU: AKR132LP-C1 Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Edith Piaf Les Plus Belles Chansons Rock And Pop | Wax Love | 1LP Released 20th April 2018 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Edith Piaf Les Plus Belles Chansons £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Wax Love SKU: WLV82073 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Scout Niblett The Calcination Of Scout Niblett Rock And Pop | Drag City | 1LP Released 28th January 2010 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Scout Niblett The Calcination Of Scout Niblett £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Drag City SKU: DC424 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th January 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Robert Wyatt Dondestan (revisited) Rock And Pop | Domino | 1LP, Includes CD Released 19th November 2008 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robert Wyatt Dondestan (revisited) £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: REWIGLP44X Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 19th November 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cyndi Lauper Detour Americana / Country | East West | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 3rd May 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cyndi Lauper Detour £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: East West SKU: 081227947064 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 3rd May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Electribe 101 Electribal Memories – Half-Speed Master 180g Rock And Pop | Demon Records | 180g, 1LP, Half Speed Mastered Released 15th March 2024 £25.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Electribe 101 Electribal Memories – Half-Speed Master 180g £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon Records SKU: DEMREC1146 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Half Speed Mastered Released Date: 15th March 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Weezer Weezer (Red Album) Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 24th October 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Weezer Weezer (Red Album) £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: UMC4545 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live Rust Rock And Pop | Reprise | 180g, 2LP Released 14th August 2017 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live Rust £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Reprise SKU: 0093624917564 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 14th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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