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- Summary: The third full-length release from Austin trio Loma features parts of poems written by an AI trained on Laurie Anderson's music.
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- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Jun 27, 2024While 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.
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UncutJun 26, 2024Attains new heights of intoxication on reconvening after four years away. [Aug 2024, p.38]
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MojoJun 26, 2024How 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]
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Jun 27, 2024There’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.
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Jun 27, 2024Cross is still the star of the show, even as it feels like Loma’s production has grown fuller than ever before.
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Jun 26, 2024While 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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Jul 3, 2024As 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.