Choral Kinship One of the biggest challenges for Woom is maintaining the difference between friend life and band life. But the confluence of those things is also exactly why the choral trio functions so well. “The reason the band exists and continues is because of the friendship, which also came together from the music,” says Lara Laeverenz. “They flow together.” This year, Woom started releasing original material for the first time: the calm, beautiful To Slow You EP, bolstered by instrumentation from other musical friends. It wasn’t so much a leap in ambition as a natural shift, says Laeverence. “When you’re arranging songs, you’re creating new harmonies. So we were building these tools, learning about each other and how we create, and a lot of that came from improvisation.” Woom will be performing live at A TOAST Festive Market on 6 December. Read more and meet the band members on the #TOASTmagazine via the link in bio. Woom (@woommusic) Words by Laura Snapes Photography by Billy Barraclough (@billybarraclough).