• Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Jun 28, 2024
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Jun 27, 2024
    80
    While still haunted and yearning in nature, tracks like "How It Starts" and the especially Halloween-y "A Steady Mind" are driving, melodic, playlist-friendly offerings that provide rhythmic pick-me-ups without stepping outside the confines of the album's blue-tinted universe.
  2. 80
    There’s an enchantment in the album's pacing and sequencing that we journey with the band through each of these emotions and emerge from trepidation with renewed hope, feeling reborn.
  3. Uncut
    Jun 26, 2024
    80
    Attains new heights of intoxication on reconvening after four years away. [Aug 2024, p.38]
  4. Jun 26, 2024
    80
    Yes, this is a heavy album, but luxuriously so. It’s music that stares death in the face and instead of running, hunkers down and gets comfortable.
  5. Mojo
    Jun 26, 2024
    80
    How Will I Live… feels like a portal to some esoteric beyond, where minimal jazz, obtuse indie and folk-horror collide. Ominous, calmly-executed highlights I Swallowed A Stone, Unbraiding and How It Starts are marvels of world-building. [Aug 2024, p.84]
  6. Jun 27, 2024
    73
    Cross is still the star of the show, even as it feels like Loma’s production has grown fuller than ever before.
  7. Jul 3, 2024
    70
    As a whole, How Will I Live Without a Body? will neither wow the listener nor will it disappoint and it includes some alluring material with a few tasty morsels that will provide a marvelously whimsical late-night headphone excursion.
  8. Jun 26, 2024
    70
    While some of the power of How Will I Live Without a Body? comes from its obliqueness, Loma manages to locate a middle ground between embracing one’s darker emotions and finding a way out of them.

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