Exclusive video premiere of ‘Boda Final / Velorio’ by Loma Baja, taken from the upcoming album, ‘Piscinas Verticales,’ out via May 26th 2023 via Spinda Records (SP), Lay Bare Recordings (NL), Clostridium Records (GE) and Echodelick Records (US).

There are times when musicians with a long history behind them need to write music without restricting themselves, for the simple fact of letting what they have inside flow, forgetting their past and who they are. The idea of going back to basics and playing around with automatic writing can always lead you into unfamiliar territory.

That is precisely what Pacomoto (G.A.S. Drummers), Jorge García (Adrift, El Páramo), Víctor Teixeira (Giganto, Another Kind Of Dead) and Raúl Lorenzo (Sou Edipo) must have thought when they decided to lock themselves in the rehearsal room at some point in 2020 and start writing songs without any preconceived idea, except to experiment.

The result of those two years of experimentation by Loma Baja is ‘Piscinas Verticales’, an album whose concept goes around the idea of the spontaneous and surreal, as if it were the soundtrack of your worst nightmare. Their sound goes beyond music genres -it’s post-everything-, although you can see some similarities with bands like Beak, Portishead, Fugazi, True Widow or Liars.

‘Boda Final / Velorio’ is the first single of Loma Baja’s debut album.

“[…] it’s about nightmares, places that generate strange feelings and about the hidden side of things. The songs seek to generate that feeling that stays with you after having seen something weird. This album is the result of the search for a common point between four guys who come from different places and who found a place in the darkness. We like “trial and error” and this is the way we wrote ‘Piscinas Verticales’, mixing elements from kraut-rock, post-punk, alt-rock, post-rock and other exotic music […]”

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