How Will I Live Without A Body? | Transparent Smoke Vinyl

How Will I Live Without a Body?’, Loma’s gorgeous, unique, and oddly comforting album is about partnership, loss, regeneration, and fighting the feeling that we’re all in this alone. Many of its songs have a feeling of restless motion; faceless characters drift through meetings and partings, tangling together and slipping away. Loma’s previous album, Don’t Shy Away, was galvanized by the unexpected encouragement and contributions of Brian Eno. This time, they found inspiration in another hero, Laurie Anderson, who offered a chance to work with an AI trained on her entire body of work. Meiburg sent her a photo from his book-in-progress about the once and future life of Antarctica; Anderson’s AI responded with two haunting poems. “We used parts of them in a few songs,” he says. “And then Dan noticed that one of its lines, ‘How will I live without a body?’ would be a perfect name for the album, since we nearly lost sight of each other in the recording process.”

Tracks

1~1~Please, Come In
1~2~Arrhythmia
1~3~Unbraiding
1~4~I Swallowed A Stone
1~5~How It Starts
1~6~Dark Trio
1~7~A Steady Mind
1~8~Pink Sky
1~9~Broken Doorbell
1~10~Affinity
1~11~Turnaround
2~1~Please, Come In
2~2~Arrhythmia
2~3~Unbraiding
2~4~I Swallowed A Stone
2~5~How It Starts
2~6~Dark Trio
2~7~A Steady Mind
2~8~Pink Sky
2~9~Broken Doorbell
2~10~Affinity
2~11~Turnaround

Details

Catalogue Number: SP1474X
Format: Vinyl
Artist: Loma
Release Date: 28 June 2024
Genre: Alternative
Label: Sub Pop Records
Distributor: Inertia Music