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Photo by Lucy Marriot R Loomes is the doom folk project of Sheffield based artist Rachel Loomes. Their latest single, "The Self Demands a Reckoning," sounds more like what I expect when I hear of doom folk. It still has the same beauty as last month's "Passerine," but this latest single sounds darker. There's also an element to the song that makes it feel almost ancient. It has the vibe of an almost medieval song made with modern production and instruments. "The Self Demands a Reckoning" starts off relatively quiet and dark, and builds into a metal adjacent crescendo. If dark music is your thing, R Loomes is going to be exactly what you need. Rachel Loomes says of "The Self Demands a Reckoning": "It's a sort of personal prayer, attempting to split off from the intellectual mind and move into the body allowing it to be the main source of reason. Attempting to shed the generational load and navigate the world a free spirit." Y...

Photo by Lucy Marriot Sheffield dark folk artist R Loomes (member of Sister Wives) has a new single out that is as beautiful as it is dark. "Passerine" can almost lull the listener into a sense of calm without them realizing just how dark the song is. It's undeniably haunting, but not in a negative way. It's the perfect single for those of us that find joy and beauty in darkness, without being too dark for the average music fan. R Loomes gets compared to artists like Jeff Buckley and Emma Ruth Rundle, and after hearing "Passerine," you won't be able to disagree.  R Loomes says of her latest single: "This song came about after spending a full day at the studio. It fell out in the last 10 minutes of the day and I wrote the lyrics on my phone on the way home as it was so stuck in my head. Its about the passing of time and the things we collect as a reminder of its ephemerality.. It's a split dialogue to myself, to love and the collective whole....