Once in a Long, Long While...

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Once in a Long, Long While
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Studio album by
Released2017
Genre Post-rock, electronica, dream pop
Length49:27
Label Tonequake Records
Low Roar chronology
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(2014)
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Once in a Long, Long While... is the third album by Icelandic band Low Roar, released on April 14, 2017. [1] [2] The album's lyrics are inspired by Ryan Karazija's recent divorce and his life as an expatriate in Iceland. [3] One reviewer described the album as "flow[ing] between dreamy and floating and more solidly rhythmic tracks," [4] and another described it as having an "atmosphere [that] never permits the sun to linger for very long, shutting it out with harsh, icy synth." [5] The song “Waiting (10 Years)" was released as a single. [6]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Don't Be So Serious"6:13
2."Bones"2:50
3."St. Eriksplan"3:41
4."Give Me an Answer"3:43
5."Waiting (10 Years)"4:05
6."Without You"3:54
7."Gosia"4:13
8."Once In a Long, Long While..."5:17
9."Crawl Back"4:09
10."Poznan"2:03
11."Miserably"3:55
12."13"5:24
Total length:49:27

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