Loamlands releases their new LP Lez Dance

LISTEN & SHARE: Loamlands – “Soni Wolf Grandmother”

LISTEN & SHARE: Loamlands – “Some Boy You Don’t Need”

“‘Soni Wolf Grandmother,’ a sparse, evocative and powerful new single that shines through with remarkable poignancy.”
– The 405

“The track is a beautifully arranged, intimate, country-tinged songwriter track sure to demand your attention in a subtle yet powerful way.”
– Austin Town Hall

“Even if you don’t know Register’s backstory, you can still hear that Sweet High Rise is a compelling, beautiful, and starkly political record.”
– Bitch Media

“…a lush guitar pop sound that pulls from the late ’70s rock and country.” 
– BrooklynVegan

“It’s a deeply emotional album, peppered with moments of tension, sadness, yearning, joy, and pain.” 
– Indy Week

Lez Dance, the sophomore full-length from country-folk band Loamlands is a genre-bending record exhibiting the narrative-heavy lyrics lead singer Kym Register is well-known for. Many tracks are intentionally bare bones, pushing raw vocals from Register to the fore font. With a multi-instrumental foundation featuring cello, trumpet, pedal steel, and more, the album’s tempos and song structures vary and are not prescribed to rhythm sections or click tracks.

Writing narrative-heavy songs has become an important part of creating music for Register, and Lez Dance continues to exemplify their penchant for storytelling. Their words are especially intimate as they navigate a tale of coming out and narrating familiar identity struggles from a southern and genderqueer perspective.

Recorded in the summer of 2018 by Kris Hilbert at Greensboro’s Legitimate Business (Solar Halos / The Body / The Love Language) and mastered by Mell Dettmer (SunO) / Earth.)

The album’s lead single “Some Boy You Don’t Need” is a song for the closest of friends that will go to any extreme to save each other from settling.