Track Of The Day LOOM
Rooted in the late 80s, around musician, lyricist and composer Fredrik Axelsson and an ever-evolving group of friends, the creative path of the Kalmar, Sweden based outfit Loom keep moving forward for around three and a half decades, weaving seamlessly together dense yet atmospheric layered guitar textures of shoegaze and the introspective, brooding moodiness of post-punk, to create a vibrant and enveloping sound, capable of imbuing constant visceral inner tension, stirring melodic sensibilities, and deep emotive heft.
The five-piece, besides Fredrik Axelsson (music, lyrics, guitar, keyboards), consists of Roland Klein (music, bass), Eddie Wilmin (keyboards), Henrik Viberg (drums) and Albin Axelsson-Jonsson (vocals and guitar), who has taken the main vocal duty with compelling results.
The latest single, “Touch and Despair”, the second of the three scheduled that will lead to the full 4-track EP release, mastered by SIMON SCOTT (Slowdive), deals with mourning, scars, and despair through the lens of the death of a friend.
The song drives unceasingly shuffling, at times crashing, drum patterns, along with bleak gulping bass lines, that fuel a thick blanket of rusty, jagged, pain-filled melodies, woven by pointed guitars with ringing, wailing edges, funneling a perpetual aching melancholy into disturbed, grief-stricken vocals, turning into a smooth chorus of quivering comfort.
Loom‘s 4-track “And Maybe the End Is Not Final” EP, mastered by SIMON SCOTT (Slowdive), will be released on June 26th, via Rundgång Records.
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