Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Growing Pains

Jeff Buckley once sang that he was, “Too young to hold on, too old to just break free and run.” That’s a sentiment with which the members of Brooklyn’s the Loom can likely identify. The indie folk quintet’s debut full-length, Teeth, addresses exactly that conundrum: the curious developmental limbo in which an adult is no longer particularly young, but not yet old either. Traversing a diverse sonic landscape, the group ponders the larger questions of life and love, but does through a prism of distinctly intimate observations. The result is a record that likely raises more questions than it answers, but finds joy simply in the asking. This Friday, November 4 the Loom play the Monkey House with songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling and Burlington’s Maryse Smith & the Rosesmiths.