Loch Lomond – Lament for Children (Hush Records)

There is an eerie, rural jungle quality to Lament for Children, Loch Lomond’s second release, as though, if they chose, they could be the creepiest band on the frontier. ‘Tic’ relates, ‘Just like a tic / I’m swelling full of blood,’ an apt description of the LP’s constant tension candied with melodies that, while not ‘Good Vibrations,’ are pop. ‘Tic,’ in particular, has something of a toe-tapping Shaman about it, something of prescient skies, mountains, spirits.
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