Lomita

Stress Echo

Lomita’s nine-song debut plays out like a deep-fried dark night of the soul. The Austin quintet’s gritty concoction of tripped-out twang, whiskey-bent trash rock, and Idiot-era Iggy Pop emerges almost fully fanged. The Pavement-flavored “I Got a Feeling” starts Stress Echo out on a jagged pop precipice that could go either way before the dilated warble of “Venom Flash” heralds the crossover into a David Lynch-directed universe of confounding high loneliness.

***.5

This article appears in September 16 • 2005.

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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.