Tom Gallo is the host of Look At My Records! on Radio Free Brooklyn.
Bushwick’s Looms are back with their dynamic, heart-wrenching third full-length album, The Way Up, which is set for release on Friday, May 3 via Good Eye Records. On The Way Up, Looms delivers a guitar-centric indie rock sound that mixes both classic and modern elements to evoke tangible feelings of lovelorn emptiness and heartache, which are fleshed out across 10 tracks that seamlessly mesh an array of influences including folk, Americana, electronic, jazz, and pop.
The Way Up is an impressive collection due largely in part to its dense sonic soundscapes that make use of principal songwriter’s Sharif Mekawy’s multi-instrumental talents, as he shines both on guitar and piano. The clean sounding acoustic guitars and Mekawy’s gentle twang on “Dead Time” evokes feelings of Smoke Ring For My Halo era Kurt Vile, while the heartland riffs and melancholic melodies on the album’s penultimate track, “What About When,” are reminiscent of the vastness heard on the War On Drug’s A Deeper Understanding.
