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Artist: Loch Lomond
Website: www.lochlomondmusic.com/
Track Name: Sir Edmund
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

I find “Loch Lomond” a tad tricky. I can’t really make up my mind whether or not I like them, they have been on the MP3 player for a couple of months now and sometimes I bump them along to the next track and sometimes I hit replay because they have just scratched a musical itch for me. As I said “tricky”

Time for some hype from their label,
In Music We Trust site …

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…

“Sir Edmund” is a song from the band’s 2004 debut album “When We Were Mountains”. I think it’s the textures and rythyms that they create are what attract me. Melodically it brings back small memories of King Crimson and Traffic with layering supplied by Stockhausen. There is something about music from first albums that I find so appealing, the chances that are taken, the compromises made, the ideas that flourish while it is being recorded and then they don’t appear in the subsequent albums.

Have a listen to “Tic” at www.myspace.com/lochlomond06 It’s from their 2006 album and then try Northern, Knees, Trees, and Lights” from their current album and see what changes three years bring. It’s a quite amazing journey so far.

For me it’s the first album is the charm. Recommended

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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