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- Summary: The fourth full-length studio release (it's first on the ATO label) from Philadelphia shoegaze band that began as a solo project for frontman Douglas Dulgarian was self-produced.
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- Record Label: ATO Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Shoegaze
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Oct 17, 2025LOTTO is worlds more polished and confident than TAGABOW’s previous efforts. .... His [Doug Dulgarian's] anti-capitalist screeds make for some of the strongest lyrical moments in his band’s catalogue, shining through on the more stanza-heavy songs, like on the sharp, noisy rollercoaster “violence iii.”
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Oct 23, 2025This, their most fully formed and digestible album to date, might well mark their breaking point to larger audiences and wider acclaim.
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Oct 17, 2025Even on an album with this much bleakness and terror, They Are Gutting a Body of Water make a beautifully uplifting noise.
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Oct 17, 2025The band, led by its creative core Douglas Dulgarian, have managed to fuse the noisiness of reverse-reverb effects and jungle breaks with the dark, heavy textures of contemporary shoegaze. And Lotto, their most recent outburst, might well be their greatest.
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Oct 21, 2025Lotto gambles on TAGABOW’s ability to craft songs more compelling in their simplicity and vulnerability than their technical capabilities. By trading in their plastic sheen for a more ragged sense of real-life urgency, TAGABOW expose the tenderness at their music’s core: a refusal to anesthetize, an avowal to meet the bone where it breaks.
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Oct 17, 2025LOTTO is disorienting and messy, but there's undoubtedly something real and honest about it.
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Oct 17, 2025The record is at its best when it retains the sense of adventure that has defined their earlier work.