Album Review
Bloom Offering – “Episodes” – [Helen Scarsdale Agency]
lexi glass 2/5/2019 12-inch, A Library
A darkwave feminist revenge fantasy unfolds on this first full-length LP from Bloom Offering, the project of Seattle-based electronic artist Nicole Carr. Cold synths and calculating beats set the scene for Carr’s deadened vocal delivery, seething with equal parts rage and hopelessness. Out of all the tracks, I fell for the album’s “hit,” the defiant “venus shrugged” (T4), but was also drawn to the twisted samples of advice on how to catch and keep a man on “imperfect absence” (T7), the dismal dance beats on “swallow me whole” (T1), and the heartsick arithmetic of “simple math” (T6). Released by Jim Haynes’ label Helen Scarsdale Agency.
you heard it 41 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 1129 days ago, Bully Demise played Swallow Me Whole
- 1130 days ago, Cousin Mary played Simple Math
- 1130 days ago, Monotone Heroine played Fit of a God Complex
- 1132 days ago, Mitch LeMay played Simple Math
- 1135 days ago, Bully Demise played Out 2 Get U
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