Lomelda Shares M FOR EMPATHY Album Stream, Out Tomorrow via Double Double Whammy

Today, Lomelda has shared the stream for her new album, M for Empathy, out tomorrow via Double Double Whammy. Uproxx, who premiered the stream and profiled Hannah Read, are saying "These songs tackle weighty ideas: the difficulty of human communication, the distance between people that looms inside even the closest relationships, and the isolation and despondency that can arise when the distance seems to outweigh the connection. With a quiet instrumental palette and a handful of incisively written lines, Lomelda makes a minute-long guitar song sound like it houses a vertiginously open space."

Lomelda has also announced tour dates with Big Thief and SXSW. All dates below.

LISTEN TO M FOR EMPATHY

TOUR DATES:

3/13 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk (SXSW)

4/20 - San Diego, CA @ Irenic *

5/5 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere *

* w/ Big Thief

ABOUT LOMELDA:

Lomelda began in Silsbee, TX, in 2008, when Hannah Read found a few friends to play her songs with her. The project continues to follow this model, songwriting and friendship at the core, studying the distance between "you" and "me" with each new release.

Early recordings, mostly lost, include works such as Late Dawn Inheritance and Heavy Shadows as well as a wealth of pinhole microphone productions about family, religion, colors, dying, fantasy and finitude.

Lomelda's first proper LP Forever was released in 2015. Hannah collaborated with Zach Daniel (drums), Andrew Hulett (guitar) and engineer/producer Tommy Read to make this album. It is a highly dynamic and emotional rock band record that explores the endings of things -- a friendship, a day, life.

After that release, out of a feeling of dissatisfaction, Hannah re-recorded the songs as a live performance on classical guitar. She, along with two close friends, commandeered a concert hall in Waco, TX, for the occasion. It was an effort for intimacy in a big empty space. That recording became 4E and was released in 2016. The following year, Lomelda found new friends in record label Double Double Whammy. The project's first release on the label came in September 2017 -- Thx. This album features the introspective mood and dynamic range the band is known for with a new gentleness and balance; also featuring the drumming of Zach Daniel, production work of Tommy Read, and Hannah covering the rest. 'Thx' reached new audiences as Lomelda spent the next year and a half touring the US and Europe with acts such as Frankie Cosmos, Phoebe Bridgers, Snail Mail, Pinegrove and Florist.

Lomelda will lead off 2019 with a new album called M for Empathy. With this taut song collection, Hannah reflects on communication and confusion -- and attempts to come closer than ever. Hannah recorded the album on a weekend trip to her hometown of Silsbee, TX, after a year of making a new home in Los Angeles. M for Empathy will be released on March 1 by Double Double Whammy.

ABOUT M FOR EMPATHY:

My new album M for Empathy is mostly things said or shoulda said. Much of it, and it's just a lil of all that's coming, came to me, or outta me, outta a deepening silence. Something you can hear a lot of. It made a way for me to say many things that were necessary to voice. It also let me not say and just sing as much as I wanted, which is important too. Making peace with the word in me, just a lil, all my might.

Photo Credit: Carley Solether

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