Words by Hazel Blacher
Striking a chord last year with the indelible folk-infused warmth of their debut single, London’s lobby have been gradually amassing a following across the dingy musical haunts of the capital with their captivating, stripped back sound. Returning once more with new single ‘folding out’ and announcing their self-released debut EP ‘nightdriving’ alongside it, here the London ‘supergroup’ (composed of members from Goat Girl and leather.head) swaddle all of slowcore’s roomy contemplation in a cushiony sling of surging lo-fi with flickering abstractions of folk instrumentation.
Thematically exploring the gradual unshrouding of one's truer self that a deepening closeness enkindles, lobby explain further: “It’s about the desire to watch the layers someone has built up, unfold, to reveal the core of who they are, and the unquestioning support needed for that process to occur."
‘folding out’ musters that familiar stillness found awake and listening to the woody creaks of a house at 5am, swathed in clouds of bedding and shuddering at the thistly whistling of the wind. Underpinned by grunting guitars and stark, downbeat vocals, at first it gathers slowly like long, silent lapels of ribbon, its rhythms taut and then loosening to carving spaces for a dance of sedately shifting elements. Spattered with additional banjo, sax and string textures, this initial quiescence gradually falls away as the track’s final crescendo builds, bursting forth like a cathartic yell and submerging the listener in brisk dawn air, breathless and feeling every emotion in dewy, rusty technicolour.
Listen to 'folding out'
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