Showing posts with label Lomoken Hoboken. Show all posts
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Friday, February 10, 2023

Lomoken Hoboken - The Second Lomo

Album: The Second Lomo
Size: 76,6 MB
Time: 33:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues-Rock
Art: Front

1. Boogie On (3:30)
2. Dr. Lomo (4:06)
3. Take Your Boots Out (4:24)
4. Back To The Alley (3:13)
5. Country Mama (3:04)
6. The Last Round (3:28)
7. Spoilt Brat Hyppie (2:52)
8. Leave The Place (4:35)
9. She Said (3:52)

Perhaps there are those in the vicinity who do not know the existence of the group and therefore its route, since its radius of action is mainly focused on the Bilbao scene and the northern area. We are also unaware of many other authors, and from time to time we walk against the current or travel in the caboose, so let's not bluff. Lomoken Hoboken is another of many bands that has to figure out how to record and broadcast their own work, even with the backing of a major label and a renowned advertising agency such as It will be not.

The story is not like in the past. The movie has changed for everyone, the world of rock was not going to be less, and strategies, budgets and bets have gone to better glory. There we have countless names and people accustomed to struggling in multiple circumstances and scenarios. People like the Lomoken, who have to independently bill their projects, and who after a three-year period without stepping on a studio faced a new experience in the Chromaticity workshop to stamp a series of their own compositions such as "Boogie On", an explanatory card. presentation and explicit headline that establishes the sound context of the work.

The main tandem (Ibai and Monge) are joined by acquaintances from the local scene such as Pedro (producer and brother of the latter) plus Aritza Castro, obtaining an effective performance on their journey from Bilbao-Texas, Texas-Bilbao. Homogeneous and intense, since the guys have managed to produce a summary of overflowing guitars (“Dr. Lomo”), quarrelsome screams (“Take Yor Boots Out”), fast-paced country rhythms (“Back To The Alley”) or nostalgic letters from amor (“Country Mama”) sung on the banks of the estuary illuminated by a disturbing crescent moon.

A magical moon that engages with the precise voodoo structuring the album, summoning the spell and supplying wounds with a miraculous poultice called blues, the same one for which seconds later the affectionately nicknamed Bear (Manuel Monge) questions in a roar called “The Last Round ”, where the rhythmic work takes on as much importance as Ibai's proud guitar or the singer's rapapolvos. The precepts continue in "Spoil Brat Hyppie", a download as fast as it is concise in which the feet can easily acquire a life of their own, prior to the three-dimensional intermission of "Leave The Place", perhaps the most receptive piece of the album, no or in vain it is the most developed in his composure and is the prologue of the aforementioned ending. A candid and courteous goodbye. She said it and I tried.

Personnel: Manuel Monge (vocals, rhythm guitar); Ibai Garcia (lead & rhythm guitar); Pedro J. Monge (bass, slide guitar); Aritza Casrto (drums).

With compliments to Gio

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