Loma Prieta
 

Awesome dudes, they put their whole new album up for streaming here lomaprieta.muxtape.com

their style changed a lot from our lp is your lp but I still dig it

i was going to post this a few days ago, but let it slide. i'm glad you did, because this is one of the best albums i've heard in such a long time. outside of HHLL, of course.

haha, i agree

not bad... I like the older stuff better though. I don't like what they've done with the vocals.

yea i like the old vocals better and i liked the slight spaziness in their old stuff too. Their Matrimony 7" is prolly my favorite release by them. Im pretty sure the other guitarist in the band is doing vocals on the new album though. I guess they just want to share vocal duties instead of one person getting all of the spotlight.

is it just me or do they sound more like Sailboats now?

a bit i guess... i don't hear that so much

my favourite song from this is "David Fung".

Love the instrumentals, but the vocals kinda suck. I like the older stuff. But this new one is good too.

david fung is an awesome song

I love deekmedia, thats all Im gonna say haha ;)

here's the story on the vocals: david fung (yes the song is named after him) was the old vocalist/did some guitar in loma prieta. he is no longer in the band, and is now with this awesome band (buy their 7", its so good. its occam's razor meets loma prieta and has absolutely some of the best artwork i've ever seen):

MySpace.com - vs, havnted bodies - SAN FRANCISCO, California - Punk / Hardcore - www.myspace.com/ushauntedbodies

that being said, now Sean does pretty much all the vocals. they used to be a 4 piece (sometimes 3 guitar and drums) to a 3 piece (2 guitar and drums). thats the reason the vocals are different. i think they still kick ass, and musically its much more dynamic and broad. their earlier stuff was absolutely nuts, but really stuck to the short, spazzy hardcore side. they've added many more elements to their music, which i think makes this release my favorite.

yea i was watching vids on youtube of him playing guitar sometimes and then he would just put it down and scream full time. For whatever reason, I was thinking he was still in the band and the other guitarist left. I guess not haha. Yea I saw vs, havnted bodies' 7" on slave union and I was thinking of buying it. Hmm weird, how did you know his name. Yea I agree with you that they can do a lot more with their sound than with their older stuff and Im sure doing that all the time gets boring. Do you know why he left the band?

No idea as to why he left. It appears as they are still friends, but we could speculate all day as to why he left. I was looking through liner notes in both Lome Prieta's "our LP is your EP" and Us, Haunted Bodies 7" and saw Davy's name. After doing some myspace checking, it all works out. And everyone should pick up the Us, Haunted Bodies 7". It is screened on one side, in a tri-fold cover slipped into a hand-stamped thingy. Its absolutely gorgeous. Musically, its like older Loma Prieta at times, but also, like their myspace says, it butts heads with Occam's Razor at times as well. All around, its just fantastic. Occam's razor was one of my favorite screamo bands, and Loma Prieta definitely is one of my present favorites, so obviously I would dig it. Its very much worth your 5 bucks.

The guitar riffs in david fung is awesome.
Big thanks to deekmedia. :D
The singing part in their song Last City sounds like minus the bear.

DARK MOUNTAIN SONGS UP, yay!


this should be a sickeningly good album, but to tell the truth i'm wayyyyy more looking forward to the split with l'antietam.

I have that 7", it is GREAT!! I also highly reccomend it to anyone who loves the "American" screamo sound, fast, hardcore, melodic.

I absolutely loved the production on Last City, i recently got it on clear /100.

Same here. I have one of the Euopean tour versions of Last City. Pretty cool stuff and I'm really excited for the new LP and the split.

new album out, anyone heard it yet?

yeah, I saw dark mountain up for download, I haven't checked it out yet though. how is it? I miss old loma :( anyone hear their split with arse moreira?

dark mountain is pretty decent. maybe itll grow on me.

i still like their older stuff more.

ghost shadow is an awesome song. :D

really like the beginning to exit here. and vermillion river is really good. i can see this growing on me.

plus the album art for this (and last city) is ****in sweet.

well they definitely are the current "innovators of screamo" however, I'm not really feeling this stuff as much. Dont get me wrong I would rather listen to this than a **** ton of other stuff but it sounds exactly like last city

for me it goes:

1. our lp is your ep
2. dark mountain
3. last city

BUMP: They've released a discography in Japan that's floating around on the internets.

worth getting alone for the unreleased tracks from "our lp" and the two new songs from the forthcoming split with l'antietam are on there too. wicked rad.

has anyone ever heard of the get get good? and if so, do you think it sounds like Our Lp Is Your LP loma prieta? I have an inkling some of the dudes were in that band before loma. They have a split with archaeopteryx if anyone feels like digging it up to agree/disagree.

i actually really like dark mountain. on the same level as last city, at that.

earlier stuff > dark mountain > last city

i really don't get why people are still really into older loma prieta. it's not that i don't like it but so many bands did that sound better than they did and last city onwards were a pretty good step up afaik.

or maybe you guys just really like david fung. haha

yea its pretty much for the david fung content

he eerily looks like our guitarist though.

what other bands sounded like older loma?

not specifically like that but spazzy screamy stuff, you have tons of american bands going that way. i don't really keep track. maybe even the europeans too, louise cyphre among them. or maybe that's just me.

dude no way, older loma was more technical and heavy. louise cyphre is nothing like "our ep", at least in the way it sounds. horror city was the band before sailboats that the dudes were in brandon.

i guess i'm too detached from skramo to tell nowadays. on a side note, horror city was ****ing awesome. i still think newer loma prieta>older loma prieta tho

i didn't even know that loma shared a member with punch, which is wack because i hate punch.

I hear a lot of good things about Loma Prieta and they always pop up on my last.fm recommendations. Guess I should get down with this, eh?

i guess you should, they're pretty much a staple of modern screamo i suppose

Must be mind-blowing stuff.

its aight, there are better bands. I used to be nuts into them though and of course didnt know they existed until after the time they came to baltimore.