Track Of The Day :: Loma - Relay Runner

Words: Sam Geary

Loma is the new Texas project between Shearwater vocalist Jonathan Meiburg, and Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski of Cross Record. The three will make their mark with their self-titled debut album on February 16 2018 via Sub Pop.

After their earlier debut single 'Black Willow', they now close off the year with another track from the album. If you ever wondered (though probably unlikely!) what a krautrock track might sound like accompanied by frogs and cicadas, then Loma come up with the answer on 'Relay Runner'.

"'Relay Runner’ was the happiest accident on the record," says Meiburg. "We discovered it when we wired up a tremolo pedal the wrong way, and got this funny, stuttering loop - and then we built a whole song around that sound. The last thing we did in the mix was erase the loop, which had gone from inspiring the song to ruining it! But it made sense that what was left underneath was a song about how to escape from a sealed room”.