Here In The Deadlights

It’s been five years since the release of Brooklyn natives, The Loom, debut album Teeth. On April 20, The Loom, John Fanning, Lis Rubard, John Mosloskie, and Mike Rasimas, put out their highly anticipated sophomore album, Here In The Deadlights. Lead singer, Fanning took his most life changing moments and poured it all into this album. In each song, you can hear the heartbreak, but you can also hear the building of becoming strong again.

Starting the album off is Fire Makes. Fire Makes immediately starts strong and is the perfect lead into the nine-track list. Towards the end of the song, you hear a wild saxophone piece by David Lackner, from Phantom Family Halo’s.

Next is I Am Not Young, one of the singles off the album. The song begins the theme for the other songs, the theme of climbing back onto your feet after world shattering devastation.

Snowed In has a distinct flare of a traditional Scottish tune, and the opening lyrics “And you can hear, you can hear, hear their footsteps through the floor//As you stood in the doorway pale as scars, pale as scars,” blends hauntingly well with the rhythmic drumming and the smooth hint of strings playing in the back.

The fourth song in is Ten Thousand Tiny Field Mice. You hear and can aquatically picture a time where you feel like everything around you is falling apart and breaking with no returns of it being fixed.

A Mast, A Hull: The second the song begins to play, the steady vibrations of the guitar chimes in giving it the sensation of falling into the 70’s. The track is somewhat similar to “Somebody to Love” by Jefferson StarShip, with a little more flare for the dramatics, and a kaleidoscope of colorful sounds.

With minimal background sound, Some Voice Other Than Mine, is Fanning singing/talking about wanting to hear a sound, a voice outside of his own.

Only Electric Light is an eerie intermission, with a remembrance of being so inside your head that you begin to only hear a buzz like hum.

In For Comfort Bates, Lis vocally accompanies Fanning. This song is about losing someone but you still have to move on. The one you lost and yourself are always still going to be together in memories, for “we are always intertwined”.

The last song on the album is Here In The Deadlights. This track completes the circle. Fanning is singing about forgiveness.

Here In The Deadlights is a powerful album, with a message that everyone can relate to at least once in his or her life. The Loom is currently on a nine-date tour, which started two days after the release, on April 22nd. You can still catch The Loom on the last four dates. For more information go to http://www.theloommusic.com/shows/.