Lotto is the fourth studio album by the American shoegaze band They Are Gutting a Body of Water, released on October 17, 2025, by ATO Records, Julia's War and Smoking Room.
Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, Paul Simpson called it their "attempt to create a raw, live-to-tape album rather than something engineered and assembled on a computer", noting that "While LOTTO does generally feel like more of a direct rock record than other TAGABOW releases, there's still some experimentation and incorporation of different genres", concluding "LOTTO is disorienting and messy, but there's undoubtedly something real and honest about it." In a Pitchfork review, Sue Park opined it was "the band's most hopeful work, in both its brutal honesty and its conscious pursuit of staying grounded", commenting that the band "expose the tenderness at their music's core: a refusal to anesthetize, an avowal to meet the bone where it breaks." Rob Sheffield said in a Rolling Stone review that it was "their most intensely emotional noise yet, a showdown with addiction and disease and death. It’s an exorcism of an album — heavier than heaven, hotter than hell, bold as love", concluding by noting that "it's a moment where fierce industrial brutality creates raw human emotion".
Track listing
Notes
All tracks are stylized in all lowercase.
Credits and personnel Credits are adapted from Tidal:
Musicians Douglas Dulgarian – vocals, guitar P.J. Carroll – lead guitar Emily Lofing – bass (except tracks 4, 8) Benjamin Opatut – drums (except tracks 4, 8)
Production Dan Angel – recording engineer (except tracks 4, 8), mixing Douglas Dulgarian – recording engineer (tracks 4, 8), mixing Scoops Dardaris – recording engineer (vocals) Ruairi O'Flaherty – mastering Brian Karlsson – album cover TJ Strohmer – back photos Sloane McCarthy – back photos Samuelito Cruz – layout
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