Artist To Check Out: Blooms.

Blooms is the project of Louise Cunnane, an Irish artist currently based in London, who has teamed up with Darragh Nolan of Sacred Animals on production to permeate the music scene with a powerful and chilling electronic r&b sound. Blooms striking debut single 'Skin' was released late last October, evoking goose bums in a similar shivering fashion as the mid-autumn winds it dropped amongst with a combination of sparse, unnerving synths and Louise Cunnane's haunting, yearning vocals. Lighter and airier than it's predecesor, 'If I' soon followed with the same unnerving, cold, trickling, electronics that both squak and soar like urgent searching seagulls and crash and dissipate in tidal waves of sound. Cunnane's sultry vocals linger in sighs of longing and loneliness, calling out into the unknown.

Current single 'Lust' is the opening track taken from the upcoming 'If' EP . The track combines disorderly, muddled synths in the sense of minimalistic krautrock and then couples with understated r&b. It's slow moving rhythms slightly dulls the senses and makes you itch for a climax which then teases you into thinking it is coming but cleverly never actually never actually culminates in the way you would expect. Probably in a similar way to relationships built from lust.

On 'Lust' Cunnne says: "Lust is the opening track of "If" because Lust consumes you, Lust takes over your mind before your heart has a chance to catch up. It's a hard feeling to ignore and can catapult you into something you're not ready for. The rest of the EP is about dealing with giving into those feelings and what happens when they turn to love and to heartbreak."

We surrender to the power of Blooms. How about you?

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Video: Talos - 'Tethered Bones'.

Talos is the project of Cork-born artist Eoin French whose electronic/ r&b infused debut single, 'Tethered Bones'  is punctuated with gloopy, clonky percussion, warning beeps and high pitched, textured vocals that strangely wound on an intensely emotional level. Speaking on ‘Tethered Bones’, Talos states:

“It's a love song, about how a relationship can engulf and transform you: what it can and does take away. What you lose and what you gain."

The track is accompanied by a powerful music video, shot and directed by production company Feel Good Lost which shows themes of hunting and captivity and alternates between murky, earthy saturated shots and black and white visuals of a young woman living out a lonely nightmare, with a seemingly unstable man; a man of whom she is not sure whether she should be comforting or killing.

.Brendan Canty of Feel Good Lost has said of the video:

“From the start, Talos and ourselves had a strong idea about a music-meets-cinema collaboration. I loved the challenge of taking what Eoin wrote and re-interpreting it - the lyrics I latched onto were around this idea of someone being so isolated and alone but at the same time being so smothered and attached to someone. It reminded me of stories I had read about Stockholm syndrome - the unusual relationships and bonds victims develop with their kidnappers.”

 

Give it a watch:

 

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