MAZOZMA - "Bathing in the Stone" LP

Mazozma - Bathing in the Stone LP (Sophomore Lounge, 2025) "‘Bathing In The Stone’ is the 6th album from Mazozma (aka Ma Turner) and the first for Sophomore Lounge since 2016’s ‘Mazozma’s Fatufairfe’. In those ensuing 9 years (if not prior), Turner’s considerable skill-set as a guitarist has been employed in a variety of guises and the amount of range covered by projects including but not limited to Huevos II, Warmer Milks, State Champion and Teal Grapefruit begs the question who else in the underground rock sphere can measure up? The small field is about to get even slimmer with the release of ‘Bathing In The Stone’, a shimmering, incandescent riposte to a generation’s worth of troubled (and often tentative) troubadours. Immaculately recorded, deftly played, ‘Bathing’ is the most fully realized and thoroughly gorgeous work in Turner’s sprawling discography. If, like me, you’re concerned your friends are drowning in a sea of musical mediocrity, the album will well function as a life pr