Stereoscopic

by Loam

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1.	Love Without Fear 03:18	buy track
2.	Telephone 02:05	buy track
3.	Moonflower 03:28	buy track
4.	Restless 03:58	buy track
5.	Porcelain 01:43	buy track
6.	Desperate Means 06:50	buy track
7.	Spellbound 02:19	buy track
8.	Dead On My Feet 04:09	buy track
9.	Gregory 01:59	buy track
10.	Saturn 04:20	buy track
11.	In Our Hearts 05:41	buy track

about

Loam's first full-length album, released March 4th, 1996 on Stunt Records.

The San Diego Union-Tribune, Night & Day, Mar. 21, 1996
****(highest rating)

Homespun harmonies and mood-dripping guitar licks rally around Frank Lee Drennen's vocals on this shimmering, melodic offering- a master stroke, really- from El Cajon's very own.

Drennen's harmonica bolsters the already obvious Neil Young influences: lap steel guitar and piano, mournful ballads and guitar fills to kill for.

Also apparent throughout is Loam's fascination for sweet harmonies and Beatle-esque pop arrangements. But it's the Fab Four as seen through the likes of Crowded House ("Love Without Fear"), Squeeze ("Moonflower") or Matthew Sweet ("Spellbound," "Desperate Means").

The feel of open country permeates these glimpses of Americana, but so does a sense of longing, a loneliness from which there's no escape.

Ben Moore's flourishes of Hammond organ and Wurlitzer electric piano complete Loam's swirling, near-liquid landscape, which includes the haunting, ethereal and captivating instrumental "Porcelain"- presented delicately on the strings of a lap steel. —James Healy

credits

released March 1, 1996

Ben Moore: Engineer/Producer
Frank Lee Drennen: Co-Production, Acoustic Guitar, Elec. Guitar, Harmonica, Vox
Clark Stacer: Elec. Bass, Fretless Bass, Vox
Christopher Pacilio: Elec. Guitar, Vox
Trace Smith: Drums

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Loam San Diego, California

LOAM is back, finishing up an unreleased record, and planning another brand new album to be recorded this coming December at Chaos Recorders!

discography

Another Day

Oct 2013
Silver Moon Motel

Jan 1998
Stereoscopic

Mar 1996
MEGA

Sep 1994

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