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Here’s what some folks have said about some things we’ve done.

More than half of the album consists of new versions, recorded at Sylvan Esso’s forest studio, of songs Register released in their solo period, refreshed by a stable, dynamic new band. It features Sinclair Palmer on bass and synths, Matt Phillips on guitar and pedal steel, and Joe Westerlund on percussion. They carry Register’s grainy yet clarion voice on a supple, dancing churn, often with a dreamy or even happy feeling that belies the heavy themes.  - INDYWEEK - Brian Howe (Pitchfork / NPR)

Rainbow Rodeo Review

Meltdown Rodeo is populated with characters who exemplify the grit and resilience that mainstream country music seeks to smooth over. From the tattoo artist in “Traveler’s Cross” to the titular “Maureen” and Dykes and Bikes co-founder “Soni Wolf.” All those individuals add up to something. “Loamlands” helps us find as much inspiration from the past as there are unearthed secrets to decry. - Rachel Cholst

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Bitch Media Review

Register got an inkling that folk was their future, not punk. Or at least, not punk music. Loamlands, with its ’70s-rock guitar and pastoral imagery, has given Register a platform from which to write songs about queer life and history.

NPR - World Cafe

Durham, N.C.'s Kym Register had a dilemma: When you're a committed member of the folk-punk scene, an outsider, a LGBTQ activist and a leader of the area's hip kids, is it cool to acknowledge the music that's in your heart — when that music is the guitar pop of bands like Fleetwood Mac that dominated your parents' record collection?

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Brooklyn Vegan / Secretly Group

Our First 100 Days was started by the Secretly Group and 30 Songs, 30 Days. A song is released every day for the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency; for a $30 donation, you can access all of them. Donations go to support causes dedicated to the climate (The People’s Climate Movement), reproductive rights (All Above All), immigration (Cosecha), LGTBQ (Southerners on New Ground), community (Hoosier Action) and music (Revolutions Per Minute).

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Noisey Premier

​Though the record is very much written to directly address North Carolina, the people in the Durham DIY scene, and the area's long history with LGBT communities and police violence, the themes Register and Hackney wrestle with throughout—queerness, police violence, bigotry and general intolerance to those who refuse to adhere to any kind of binary—are poignant no matter where you live.

Stereogum

[Today] we get the North Carolina folk-punk band Loamlands, whose leader Kym Register appears on the episode, covering that album’s track two, “Fall Of The Star High School Running Back.” It’s a sprawling, melodic take on the song, turning an original that clocked in at under two minutes into something that spans five and a half.

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Autostraddle

Autostraddle and Loamlands are pleased to exclusively premiere the band’s new video for “Little River,” a solemn ode to queer community and Durham, North Carolina’s grim history with LGBTQ rights. The video showcases queer faces from throughout the community, while the song deals directly with the murder of a young gay man at Little River, which caused riots eventually leading to the beginning of Durham Pride.