Album Review

Bloom Offering – “Episodes” – [Helen Scarsdale Agency]

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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:

70 days ago, Bully Demise played Swallow Me Whole
71 days ago, Cousin Mary played Simple Math
72 days ago, Monotone Heroine played Fit of a God Complex
73 days ago, Mitch LeMay played Simple Math
76 days ago, Bully Demise played Out 2 Get U

Album Review

Bloom Offering – “Episodes” – [Helen Scarsdale Agency]

you heard it 41 times on kfjc! most recently:

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