Was there a particular song from this record that you enjoyed making the most?Ĭross: I don’t know if I have a favourite. That’s when it gets hard, because you don’t know what to delete.
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And we do find common ground in the pleasure of sound, we’ll just sit in the studio and laugh at a cool sound that we have and then we have to figure out if it’s cool that it’s in there or does it have to be in there because it’s serving a function. I’m always trying to make less of a rock song and Dan’s trying to make it more of a pop rock song… and then we get to a point where it’s all a combination of that. There was a lot of programming with the Ableton Live but I think it’s interesting because we all push each other in different directions because we do come such different places musically. He writes quite a lot for the band and I would say I play more of a producer role in the band and of course I’m a vocalist but he comes up with most of the skeleton of the song and then we take things away and mold them.Īnd actually both him and Dan did work in combination for this one pretty evenly. Well that speaks to your origins, because Jonathan comes from Shearwater, so how does his origin as a rock star influence Loma? What is his influence on the band?Ĭross: I would say it’s huge. :: stream/purchase Don’t Shy Away here :: Stream: ‘Don’t Shy Away’ – Loma
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We’ll just sit in the studio and laugh at a cool sound that we have. We do find common ground in the pleasure of sound. All three are now dispersed across a Texas to Cornwall axis, and yet their second record is just as good as the first. Duszynski, a working engineer, runs his own independent recording studio in central Texas, and previously assisted her sophomore slowestcore album, Cross Record. Cross, a Doula who assists “living funerals” by trade, records music as if a happy coincidence. Meiburg plays frontman role for Shearwater. Meiburg chimed in with a lean remark: “Dan is the judge, I’m the jury, Emily’s the executioner,” highlighting Duszynski and Cross’ different orientations to music. With only a month to go before release, I had a chance to talk and, er, email the trio different questions about the nature of their music and how they make it click.įrom the email exchange, Duszynski switched between songwriting metaphors first house-building foundation, rough work, noise, detail, finish-heavy emphasis on the finish-and then a Ouija board simile: “everyone pushing the dial towards something together.” The press release even mentions a democratic process in which “no one wears the crown.” I like to think it’s still better than being lobbed guitar riffs from farcical aquatic ceremonies. Cross joined them, and in February of the new year, a new record was well on its way. Unsure enough, Meiburg and Duszynski were soon back in the studio together unraveling new sonic for a follow-up. A finite end to an enigmatic perfect first record. Had it all gone to ad hoc plan, Sub Pop’s SPF 30 celebration would have capped off the ad hoc plan “We thought, why not stop here?” asked Cross on their second album’s press release. This is unusual as, by all accounts, every member of Loma thought their debut would also be their only. Don’t Shy Away on October 23 rd, exactly thirteen days after I have written this sentence.
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Loma is a band of three people: Dan Duszynski, producer, Jonathan Meiburg, guitarist, and Emily Cross, vocalist their second record is called Don’t Shy Away, and it too should be a poorly kept secret. I was on the other end, and we were both laughing deliriously about the ubiquity of certain fonts.Ĭross is one of a trifecta called Loma, a band on the label Sub Pop and possibly - should be - the worst kept secret in independent music. It was a Saturday afternoon in England and Emily Cross was sitting in her car for an interview with Atwood Magazine. (laughs) Yeah! I’m always taking about Papyrus! Always! Someone got to paid to choose that Papyrus font. And then you realize that that “thing” is someone’s whole life.
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It’s actually interesting once you start to look at things. Lead singer Emily Cross sat down with Atwood Magazine to answer questions on the album’s formation. Uncanny yet tranquil, Loma’s unlikely sophomore effort ‘Don’t Shy Away’ is an oasis of joy in a world verging on everything.