New album review

The Noise says Nervous Grooming Gestures is "an appealing confection, entertaining and melodious!" — Full Review

New album review + WFNX airplay

The Fire Note reviews Nervous Grooming Gestures and puts "Loam up there on our list as an unsigned independent band (or guy) to watch!" — Full Review

Loam has also been added to the WFNX New England Product playlist.

NERVOUS GROOMING GESTURES is here!

I'm happy to announce that the 4th release from Loam, Nervous Grooming Gestures, is available for download NOW on iTunes, amazon.com, and CDBaby! Physical CDs are also available on CDBaby.

I also put up a new tune "White Tulips" on MySpace. I'll add samples of the other tracks soon.

New version of the website is up. Everything should be fairly easy to find. Unless you're looking for a Snuggie.

And finally, here's the first track from Nervous Grooming Gestures. It's REAL!

Great news from the Loam front office. "Nervous Grooming Gestures" will be released on January 12, 2010.

Official track listing:

Real
Second is Last
Knife in a Hurricane
Walk Down the Street
Guilt and Fear
Outrunning It
Conversational Defense
White Tulips
Pillagers on the Roof
Seasia

—CR

Long time, no hear. Sorry about that. Busy, busy mixing new stuff.

Okay, so May was over-reaching a bit. More accurately, what was I thinking??

I'm happy to report that much progress is being made with the new record. I'm extremely anxious to release new material. The mastering process has already begun so I anticipate a new tune being posted within the next 6 weeks, followed by the album a few weeks after that.

—Chris

The basic tracks for the new album will be finished in a few weeks. There's plenty of mixing and mastering to be done, but at this point it looks like a July release. Hopefully I'll be able to post a new tune around the end of May.

Putting the shovel and parka away—
Chris