LASTIMA
PAIN BLOOMED FROM OUR LUNGS (COLORED VINYL) - LP

UPC: 020543014647
Label: TOMB TREE
Format: LP
Release Date: May 16, 2025
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Rapturous strings soar through a deafening, blackened turmoil– one part iridescent, another part melancholy. Here, in their debut “a pain bloomed from my lungs”, Philadelphia’s Lástima offers up the culmination of their blackgaze experimentations in a record which not only illustrates a band’s maturation of their sound, but wields that sonic confidence to best sustain a record steeped in sincere and vulnerable reckonings with grief, as well as identity. Lástima’s palette of genres, existing in the oft-taped spaces of post-hardcore and post-metal which inform particularly evocative and compelling blackgaze, and their emphasis on musical juxtaposition and catharsis mirror its preoccupations with dualities and between-ness: loss and family, immigration, imperialism, and living in diaspora, and mixed-race identity. The disharmony and contrast is itself a fruitful, harmonious device which conveys more complex anguish, generational wounds.

Surrender yourself. Bear witness to the echo of time’s long aches.

TRACK LIST:

1. Redux 05:51
2. The Shallow Drowned Lose Less Than We 06:09
3. Al Cerro Ancón 06:56
4. Hazel Interlude 01:52
5. Lyla 05:43
6. Espantapájaros 01:40
7. Sin Sol 06:09
8. Gifts From Our Mother 02:25
9. Septiembre 07:59