Loma

Loma and Shearwater almost seem fated to tour together. Both feature songwriter Jonathan Meiburg and engineer/producer Dan Duszynski; both have their roots in Austin, Texas; both are released by Seattle's Sub Pop records. And both have a third member named Emily (Emily Lee in Shearwater, Emily Cross in Loma). But they're different in the profound ways that only siblings can be. Cross's calm and enveloping voice is the heart of Loma, whose pastoral, mesmerizing 2018 debut was miles away from Shearwater's extroverted Jet Plane and Oxbow, released the previous year. Since then, each group has...