There was something almost transcendent about Brooklyn rock band The Loom’s 2011 debut album, ‘Teeth.’ On such intimate, horn-skied tracks as “A Song of Faint Praise” (streaming below) and “The First Freeze,” oaken-voiced frontman John Fanning and company stared into a dark forest but pined for a blissful, pure air. The quartet, like Leonard Cohen on ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen’ or perhaps Walt Whitman in ‘Leaves of Grass,’ foraged for some kind of holy truth on ‘Teeth’ and gathered intensely beautiful songs in the process. At work on its sophomore LP, The Loom plays The Mercury Lounge on Sunday (9.13). – Zach Weg
