Don't Shy Away (豆瓣)

表演者: Loma
流派: 摇滚
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: CD
发行时间: 2020-10-23
出版者: SUB POP
条形码: 0098787136623
其他版本: Don't Shy Away （全部）

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　　https://lomamusic.bandcamp.com/album/dont-shy-away
　　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, a song whose minimal groove and hypnotic refrai... (展开全部) 　　https://lomamusic.bandcamp.com/album/dont-shy-away
　　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, a song whose minimal groove and hypnotic refrain seem as much farewell as a manifesto: I make my bed beside the road / I carry a diamond blade / I will not serve you. 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 a 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.
　　It’s a couplet that evokes the album in miniature. Don’t Shy Away is shot through with revelations, both joyful (“Given a Sign”) and sober (the clear-eyed title track), and winds from moment to moment with confidence and humor. Like Loma’s first effort, there’s a tangible and sensuous feeling of place; insects sing in the trees, an ill-fitting door creaks in the wind. But there’s also a daring and hard-won wisdom, underlined by Cross’s benevolent clarinet, which often sounds like an extension of her singing voice. “Ocotillo”’s desert landscape unreels into a blazing sun; “Elliptical Days” seems to ascend endlessly like Escher’s circling monks; the jubilant “Breaking Waves Like a Stone” appears out of a haze of synthesizers that pulse like fireflies. A series of guests wander through these absorbing soundscapes, 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.
　　Performed by Emily Cross | Jonathan Meiburg | Dan Duszynski
　　with
　　Emily Lee - Piano, Violin, Harp
　　Matt Schuessler - Bass, Synthesizer
　　Colin Houlihan- Baritone Saxophone
　　José Carlos Izquierdo- Trumpet
　　Josh Balleza- Trombone
　　Nolan Potter - Flute on “Ocotillo”
　　Andrew Stevens - Drums on “Breaking Waves”
　　Anastasia Wright - Additional Backing vocals on “Given a Sign”
　　Jenn Wasner - Piano on “Ocotillo”, bass on “Homing” and “Breaking Waves”
　　Brian Eno - Additional synths and drum programming on “Homing”
　　Recorded and mixed by Dan Duszynski at Dandysounds
　　Produced by Loma
　　except “Homing,” which was produced by Brian Eno
　　Mastered by Carl Saff
　　All songs by Cross/Duszynski/Meiburg
　　Except “Don’t Shy Away” by Cross/Duszynski/Meiburg/Lee
　　and “Homing” by Cross/Duszynski/Meiburg/Eno
　　Thanks to our human and animal families, Ray Hearn, JP, Stuart Meyer, Tony Kiewel, Katie Harrington, Jynne Martin, Louie Saletan, Jonathan Kade, Mary and Simon, Deron Pulley, Danny Reisch, Reuben Cox, Carson and Branson, Anastasia Wright, Ali Hedrick, Steven Thomassen
　　Cover Artwork by Lisa Cline
　　Design by Dusty Summers
　　All songs (c) 2020 Polyborus Music (ASCAP), Third Side Music (BMI)
　　Except “Homing” (c) 2020 Polyborus Music (ASCAP), Third Side Music (BMI), Universal Music (BMI)
　　And “Don’t Shy Away” (c) 2020 Polyborus Music (ASCAP), Third Side Music (BMI), Sfxmaven Music (ASCAP)

曲目 · · · · · ·

I Fix My Gaze 03:10
Ocotillo 04:50
Half Silences 03:46
Elliptical Days 04:30
Given a Sign 04:20
Thorn 04:54
Breaking Waves Like a Stone 04:38
Blue Rainbow 03:08
Jenny 01:20
Don't Shy Away 04:31
Homing 04:40

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吃白 2023-07-31 17:17:04

Don't Shy Away - Loma 歌词本

1.I Fix My Gaze 03:10 Stuck beneath the rock I begin to see the beauty in it I begin to see the hardness and the function of it Its perfect texture smooth with age The opposite happens to my face Now understanding the weight Colors changing with the light I... (展开)