episodes
by bloom offering
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Bloom Offering will leave you high and dry, ablated, and somehow craving more. Astounding collection of tracks here.
allthemornings
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KASW
Chris Sienko
Projekt Ortsschild
Vesica Piscis
woodshampoo
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MK_Ultra
Bronze Bell
Giles Greenway
Kim
goo
jfoifs
dumbgiiirl
Michael Cross
R M B
hipriformkatus
Evangelos Evangelinos
Kevin Regan
kevin powell
L'étranger
Rod Ganiard
fantacosma
now_its_dark
Collin Sherman
U_B
josh medina
Lune Verte
so the wind
Don´t look back
oRLΔNDo • ΠΞIᴵIΔ
Eric Christ
Sopor0qv
bashfulcorpse
chris sneeringer
argumentix
DEVIN HURD
robert crozier
richard chartier
NA7GDYH2
kreuzgang
zibulsky
Jason Walker
Madalyn Moth
e.dulanowsky
johnnypurplehaze
kanzleramt
ningnong2
BCebelak
loebl
Tim Roughgarden
Jason
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Albuman edition somewhere around 300 copies, comes with riso printed insert featuring an interview with bloom offering.
Includes unlimited streaming of episodes via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 daysPurchasable with gift card$19 USD or more
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift card
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swallow me whole
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fishbowl
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fit of a god complex
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venus shrugged
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out 2 get u
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simple math
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imperfect absence
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about
bloom offering is the synth-wave / blighted electronic project of seattle’s nicole carr. having released a handful of well-received cassettes through clan destine, aught void, and sinneslöschen, bloom offering presents her debut lp episodes through the helen scarsdale agency.
in her development as an artist and technician, carr has steadily honed her abilities in sculpting sharply cold electronics and declarative vocals set upon propulsive spines of whipcrack snares and throttled kick drums. episodes strikes us as the refinement and culmination of those motifs into a compulsive communion with bleak noise, dark-eyed melody, controlled rhythm, cathartic release and emotional drainage. the opening track “swallow me whole” is one of many pyrrhic anthems of resolute disdain for the current social order with its frantic rhythms complicating the moody arrangements. “venus shrugged” maintains a stately almost haughty sequence of synth stabs, evoking the sexual politics of the male gaze and any woman who chooses to look for herself. the scornful “out 2 get u” was penned as a stark banger of unrelenting, industrial techno in the the wake of the panic and paranoia against the post-weinstein groundswell of feminine rage; yet in the constant headlines of men behaving badly, bloom offering’s curse remains necessary.
episodes questions the positions of gendered power in mirroring back carr’s existential anxiety through her roughly engineered body music and minimal wave shadowplay. for ancillary listening references, chris & cosey, lebanon hanover, dva damas, and the rhythmic facets of janushoved might of use.
in her development as an artist and technician, carr has steadily honed her abilities in sculpting sharply cold electronics and declarative vocals set upon propulsive spines of whipcrack snares and throttled kick drums. episodes strikes us as the refinement and culmination of those motifs into a compulsive communion with bleak noise, dark-eyed melody, controlled rhythm, cathartic release and emotional drainage. the opening track “swallow me whole” is one of many pyrrhic anthems of resolute disdain for the current social order with its frantic rhythms complicating the moody arrangements. “venus shrugged” maintains a stately almost haughty sequence of synth stabs, evoking the sexual politics of the male gaze and any woman who chooses to look for herself. the scornful “out 2 get u” was penned as a stark banger of unrelenting, industrial techno in the the wake of the panic and paranoia against the post-weinstein groundswell of feminine rage; yet in the constant headlines of men behaving badly, bloom offering’s curse remains necessary.
episodes questions the positions of gendered power in mirroring back carr’s existential anxiety through her roughly engineered body music and minimal wave shadowplay. for ancillary listening references, chris & cosey, lebanon hanover, dva damas, and the rhythmic facets of janushoved might of use.
credits
released November 30, 2018
bloom offering is nicole carr
mastering by james plotkin
collages and found images by nicole carr
art direction by nicole carr and helen scarsdale
design by helen scarsdale
photography by cecilia corsano-leopizzi
bloom offering is nicole carr
mastering by james plotkin
collages and found images by nicole carr
art direction by nicole carr and helen scarsdale
design by helen scarsdale
photography by cecilia corsano-leopizzi
license
all rights reserved
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about
helen scarsdale California
post-industrial research, surrealist collage, refined minimalism, caustic electro-acoustics, sublimated dream-pop,
obfuscated field recordings, recombinant noise, existential vacancy, and then some.
no demos accepted. full demo policy explained here: helenscarsdale.com/about.htm
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