Lomelda

Indie songwriter Lomelda crafts vulnerable, introspective material that moves between intimate acoustic settings and hazy full-band textures. Her debut full-length, Late Dawn Inheritance, surfaced in 2012, yet her first release on Double Double Whammy came five years later with the third album, Thx.

Lomelda serves as the chosen alias—adopted during high school—for Silsbee, Texas native Hannah Read, whose reflective songs form the core of the project. Picking up guitar at a young age in imitation of her older siblings, she began performing solo around Waco during college and built an audience there. For the self-released Late Dawn Inheritance, however, she assembled a backing band; her brother Tommy Read co-produced the sessions, which included contributions from a handful of guests on strings and drums. Austin-based Slow Divide Records soon reissued the album. Following more extensive touring, Lomelda issued her second album, Forever, in 2015 via Punctum Records. The live solo recording 4E, captured at Waco’s Meadows Recital Hall in April 2016, documented a performance of that material. Growing recognition for her understated, intimate songwriting led to an invitation to open for Pinegrove and, ultimately, a signing with Double Double Whammy.

The label issued her third studio album, Thx, in September 2017. Its opening track, “Interstate Vision,” became her most streamed song to date, accumulating millions of plays before the arrival of M for Empathy in March 2019. Although Read had moved to Los Angeles by then, both that album and her fifth full-length, Hannah, were tracked with her brother at his studio in Silsbee; the latter appeared on Double Double Whammy in September 2020.