AOTY 2023

Don't Shy Away

Loma - Don't Shy Away
Critic Score
Based on 10 reviews
2020 Ratings: #184 / 868
User Score
Based on 95 ratings
2020 Ratings: #205
Liked by 8 people
October 23, 2020 / Release Date
LP / Format
Sub Pop / Label
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MasterCrackfox
83

Some weeks are exceptionally packed affairs in music and make it difficult to give due diligence to each big-name release in a timely manner. For some in the moment it may feel like a competition of which album can succeed more on that day, but history never remembers these moments. No one who grew up in the 90's likely remembers a day when Soundgarden released Superunknown on the same day Nine Inch Nails released The Downward Spiral. It seems inconsequential that David Bowie released his debut ... read more

JustSomeGuy
75

2020 Catch-up #5

An album that seems to have gone under the radar for most people, which I really don't understand why. Well, I guess I do, with so many big releases this year, some albums deserving of endless praise and a spot amongst even the most popular records of the year are ultimately going to be left behind and unnoticed by most. But listening to Loma's new album after hearing some of what has been heralded as "the best of the year", it really makes me wonder how many other ... read more

Doofy
NR

Yay, Jonathan Meiburg has gone even more 'Laughing Stock' Talk Talk'y here, just with some added new age instrumentation to make everything that bit more blissful.

Less overtly 'songful' than the debut...but better than the debut all the same.

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Track List

1I Fix My Gaze
3:10
70
2Ocotillo
4:50
90
3Half Silences
3:46
93
4Elliptical Days
4:30
84
5Given a Sign
4:20
83
6Thorn
4:54
78
7Breaking Waves Like a Stone
4:38
83
8Blue Rainbow
3:08
81
9Jenny
1:20
80
10Don't Shy Away
4:31
85
11Homing
4:40
79
Total Length: 43 minutes

Year End Lists

#15/NBHAP
#36/Under the Radar
#44/Our Culture
/AllMusic
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Added on: July 29, 2020