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When We Were Mountains by Loch Lomond
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fave it Quirky | Delicate
10 tracks | 45 minutes
Released Nov 2003
on In Music We Trust Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:19 Stripe lyrics FREE 04:19 Stripe lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:19 Stripe
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Sweeping melodies brushed by atmospheric, mountain-esque rumblings of quiet, quaint rock, coupled with a straight-ahead sense burried underneath the ashes of the layered, but still light compositions.
Editorial review
Slow, deliberate, and tense, Loch Lomond create a dark yet pretty audio picture on "Stripe," a song with lush instrumentation despite describing murdering someone at work. The duo of Ritchie Young and Rob Oberdorfer sounds a bit like Smashing Pumpkins in their heartfelt moments during the opener, but the song continues for far too long. "The Mountain" resembles a cross between Supertramp and Elliott Smith on the acoustic opening moments. Adding backing harmonies that result in a dreamy '60s feeling, the tune glides along quite nicely with winding violins and other strings. What makes the album improve is a change of genre, moving into more of an electronic, Depeche Mode-circa-Ultra style on "Sir Edmund." The high vocals don't blend as well as they should though at times, particularly reaching on the singer/songwriter, piano-driven "Canadian Shield." Perhaps the highlight of the record is "Whatafall," a spacy walk between acoustic guitar, jazz, and classical piano, ghostly vocals, and ample effects. The pretentious Parisian "Sourire," performed mainly in French, is a novel idea on paper, but definitely not on tape. "Del Fuego" has some similarities to Sir Edmund, but here they slowly build a mounting tension that never comes to blossom. Loch Lomond can certainly churn out lovable acoustic-based pop nuggets such as "Salt the Air," which brings Radiohead and Pilate to mind. Most of this album is not great but quite good. ~ Jason MacNeil, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Something I instantly understand but don't know why; a touched nerve deep behind rationality _ genetic memory perhaps. I totally get it, but why?
Loch Lomond's Old World themes shine through the modern settings, like a weird foreign coin in the collection plate. But these cryptic descriptions are all a lot of crap.
Loch Lomond is a three-piece, sometimes sextet, riddled with strings, samples and beaming lyrical imagery. Put your trust in singer Ritchie Young and he'll guide you through all sorts of wonders and horrors, tugging loose lost memories, shaking them in the wind. Guitars and violins, cellos and tambourines, wonderful accordions, concertinas, Ritchie's bald-faced lyrics, somewhere in my head all this, now shamelessly invoked, the whole of it. And Kate and Rob, like the heart of a storm, he with his metronomic clacks and she like some rain goddess gushing down wind and water ...
All hail Portlandia!
Loch Lomond is:
Ritchie S.
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Eerie... rainy... what's making that sound?!OliviaNewtonYawn wrote on January 13, 2008
This is a strange, beautiful, difficult album. Certain tracks stand out for sheer gorgeousness, most notably The Mountain. Some melt into your subconscious and fade in there... okay a lot of them do that. I think you should just hear it. Really. Preferably with headphones.