LA LOM will perform Sunday, July 27.

LA LOM is not-so-quietly an initialism, meaning the Los Angeles League of Musicians. These adventurous Angelinos pay tribute to the undersung vantages and vestiges of the city of Angels: A drive along the north-south corridor of Figueroa St. past the looming contemporary BMO stadium into the Latino neighbourhood of Vermont Vista where the album was recorded; a sweaty coffee shop concert lit up by a pale moon in the suburb of Montebello. These are the experiences of their city, captured entirely in sound, that make up the project’s debut.

The group met as teenagers and established themselves as a house band at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, performing three-hour sets, five nights a week, developing an extensive repertoire of songs, and drawing from all possible origins of Latin music. Many of these were covers, the result of extensive crate-digging and musical exploration. Over time the band developed original material, borrowing from and iterating on the traditions of Colombia cumbia and sonidera, Mexican bolero, Peruvian chicha and ’60s soul surf.

In the same way that Dick Dale & the Deltones’ interpolation of “Misirlou” has become sonically synonymous with LA since the release of Pulp Fiction, LA LOM seeks to redefine their city with the music that represents the people who make it what it is, and where those people arrive from. Much like the city of LA, LA LOM’s performance will be mysterious, alluring, and hotter than you were expecting it to be.

- Liam Prost