The Loom is hitting the road in support of their debut LP, Teeth! Out November 1st on Crossbill Records, the album sways from somber drones of distortion and lonely French horn to manic layers of trumpet, guitar fuzz, and cymbal crashes, its resonance lies in the way these contrasts conjure the idiosyncratic personal details and experiences, both immense and minute, of everyday life. They tell stories of regret and renewal – of characters “doing their dishes in the dark” even while “trying to make the days feel long” – offsetting minor notes with major keys and tempering squall with calm, just as DM Stith’s striking cover image evokes both lightness and dissonance, growth and decay. Or, as “The Middle Distance” says, in a line that could be a statement of purpose for the record, “This is for the ones who still have joy inside their hearts – may you always find it where you don’t have to look.” Live, the band brings a kinship to the stage that results in close harmonies, rich instrumentation and sonic exploration that leaves attendees in joyful awe!
Tour Dates:
10.20.11 - Beacon, NY @ Howland Cultural Center
10.21.11 - Manhattan, NY @ Joe's Pub - Album Release Party
10.28.11 - Providence, RI @ AS220
10.29.11 - Albany, NY @ Valentine's
10.30.11 - Montague, MA @ Montague Bookmill
10.31.11 - Waterbury, CT @ Freight St. Gallery
11.01.11 - Amherst, MA @ Hampshire College - Red Barn
11.02.11 - Boston, MA @ PA's Lounge
11.03.11 - Biddeford, ME @ The Oak + the Ax
11.04.11 - Burlington, VT @ Enter
11.05.11 - Toronto, ON @ TBA
11.06.11 - Buffalo, NY @ The Vault
11.07.11 - Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
11.08.11 - Meadville, PA @ Allegheny College - Grounds for Change
11.09.11 - Toledo, OH @ Ottawa Tavern
11.10.11 - Milwaukee, WI @ Linneman's
11.11.11 - Chicago, IL @ Pancho's
11.12.11 - Madison, WI @ University of Wisconsin - Der Rathskeller
11.13.11 - Cincinnati, OH @ Motr Pub
11.14.11 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Melody Inn
11.15.11 - Columbus, OH @ Kafe Kerouac
11.16.11 - Charlottesville, VA @ Pink Warehouse
11.17.11 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
11.18.11 - Washington, DC @ Velvet Lounge
11.19.11 - College Park, MD @ University of Maryland
11.20.11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
Early Press for The Loom:
THE NEW YORKER
"Beloved Brooklyn sextet the Loom...have lately been guiding their chamber-folk sound to decidedly louder sonic territory."
NEW YORK TIMES
"Are you looking for the next big thing? If it’s folk: The Loom"
IMPOSE MAGAZINE
"Let's hope The Loom's "For The Hooves That Gallop..." is the beginning of a new discourse in folk."
DAYTROTTER
"The Loom is a Brooklyn band that makes us believe that they're the
fathers and mothers of our cold and jagged memories, those that may or
may not even be our memories for they feel so distant. They make us
believe that they are the keepers of or the mediums for the tangled and
tattered old thoughts that give us pause as we sit down to consider that
maybe we do have souls that are dated well beyond the years that we're
given credit for having lived."
BROOKLYN VEGAN
"The loft filled up to a full, but still comfortable level by the time
The Loom came on. It was the first time I had seen them live, and at the
time I tweeted that they were “killin it with horns.” I’m excited for
the new album they said they were working on."
RCRD LBL
"With Brooklyn churning out bands of all stripes at all times, it's
becoming more and more difficult to tell them all apart, let alone
corral one whose music might send your heart aflutter. But wait! Hearts
are FLUTTERING. Working heavily in gothic watercolors, the Loom kick out
glow-in-the-dark folk wailers that flirt with the anthemic, but never
abandon the quiet spaces they were born in."
MUZZLE OF BEES
"SXSW is the best festival in the world for stumbling across great,
emerging new bands, and for me the best finds of the day were both at
the Muzzle Of Bees barbecue. The Loom was the first of those, and they
drew me in with upbeat multi-instrumental arrangements including French
horn, trumpet, and ukelele (or possibly a mandolin — it was hard to tell
from my tree fort vantage)...Afterward I joined many people in making
verbal notes-to-self to check out The Loom when they get home."
PASTE MAGAZINE - BEST OF WHAT'S NEXT
"These days, the band’s intra-band camaraderie is palpable. That
perhaps-unlikely closeness especially comes out on stage...weaving rich
sonic tapestries with an intangible joy."
More Info:
Teeth: the part of you that outlast you longest once you’re gone. That hold a record of what you’ve done with your time, tribute or rebuke. In comparison to their longevity, time for the rest of you is short. So, then – what to do with that time?
For the members of Brooklyn five-piece The Loom, the answer to this question – the reason that they choose to play music together in the first place – is the simple search for joy. It’s a concern that both far outdates, and is reflected in, the searching folk, intricate percussion, and psych-influenced dissonance and atmospherics that they love and wind into their music. But Teeth, their debut, is not all joyful. Like the music that inspires them, it focuses more closely on the myriad hurdles that ensnare us along the way.
As Daytrotter’s Sean Moeller writes, “It feels as if many of the people residing in the songs of The Loom…are in need of…something to re-energize the inner parts of them that they’ve had amputated against their wills…They howl up at an inanimate moon and they chant the same words over and over: ‘Something in the changing of the seasons will make us more alive.’”
The amputations Moeller speaks of are not the catastrophic sort, but the steady, subtle frustrations, regrets, and disappointments that can lead to numbing and slow unraveling over time. Anxiety, guilt, and the weight of expectation, offset by scattered bliss, are all things that The Loom experience as they settle into adulthood in 2011 and try to capture here, feeling a bit too old for unbridled optimism and a bit too young for abject cynicism. Teeth’s primary obsession is with that nagging disconnect, of knowing that one should feel joyful and fulfilled, while knowing that one often does not.
Throughout, close friends/de facto family John Fanning (vocals and guitar), Jon Alvarez (drums), Lis Rubard (French horn and trumpet), Dan DeSloover (bass), and Sarah Renfro (vocals and keys, though it is former vocalist Sydney Price who appears on Teeth) create a rich, dynamic sonic space. From somber drones of distortion and lonely French horn to manic layers of trumpet, guitar fuzz, and cymbal crashes, its resonance lies in the way these contrasts conjure the idiosyncratic personal details and experiences, both immense and minute, of everyday life. They tell stories of regret and renewal – of characters “doing their dishes in the dark” even while “trying to make the days feel long” – offsetting minor notes with major keys and tempering squall with calm, just as DM Stith’s striking cover image evokes both lightness and dissonance, growth and decay. Or, as “The Middle Distance” says, in a line that could be a statement of purpose for the record, “This is for the ones who still have joy inside their hearts – may you always find it where you don’t have to look.”
Teeth is out on November 1st on Crossbill Records!
Teeth: the part of you that outlast you longest once you’re gone. That hold a record of what you’ve done with your time, tribute or rebuke. In comparison to their longevity, time for the rest of you is short. So, then – what to do with that time?
For the members of Brooklyn five-piece The Loom, the answer to this question – the reason that they choose to play music together in the first place – is the simple search for joy. It’s a concern that both far outdates, and is reflected in, the searching folk, intricate percussion, and psych-influenced dissonance and atmospherics that they love and wind into their music. But Teeth, their debut, is not all joyful. Like the music that inspires them, it focuses more closely on the myriad hurdles that ensnare us along the way.
As Daytrotter’s Sean Moeller writes, “It feels as if many of the people residing in the songs of The Loom…are in need of…something to re-energize the inner parts of them that they’ve had amputated against their wills…They howl up at an inanimate moon and they chant the same words over and over: ‘Something in the changing of the seasons will make us more alive.’”
The amputations Moeller speaks of are not the catastrophic sort, but the steady, subtle frustrations, regrets, and disappointments that can lead to numbing and slow unraveling over time. Anxiety, guilt, and the weight of expectation, offset by scattered bliss, are all things that The Loom experience as they settle into adulthood in 2011 and try to capture here, feeling a bit too old for unbridled optimism and a bit too young for abject cynicism. Teeth’s primary obsession is with that nagging disconnect, of knowing that one should feel joyful and fulfilled, while knowing that one often does not.
Throughout, close friends/de facto family John Fanning (vocals and guitar), Jon Alvarez (drums), Lis Rubard (French horn and trumpet), Dan DeSloover (bass), and Sarah Renfro (vocals and keys, though it is former vocalist Sydney Price who appears on Teeth) create a rich, dynamic sonic space. From somber drones of distortion and lonely French horn to manic layers of trumpet, guitar fuzz, and cymbal crashes, its resonance lies in the way these contrasts conjure the idiosyncratic personal details and experiences, both immense and minute, of everyday life. They tell stories of regret and renewal – of characters “doing their dishes in the dark” even while “trying to make the days feel long” – offsetting minor notes with major keys and tempering squall with calm, just as DM Stith’s striking cover image evokes both lightness and dissonance, growth and decay. Or, as “The Middle Distance” says, in a line that could be a statement of purpose for the record, “This is for the ones who still have joy inside their hearts – may you always find it where you don’t have to look.”
Teeth is out on November 1st on Crossbill Records!
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